First, let’s see the best college essay ever written.
Next, I’ll read an excerpt from David Foster Wallace and possibly have us share our own DFW-ellian sentences here. Here is the presentation I used.
Then, I want to give you some time to work on college essays while I do a little one-on-one conferencing.
Finally, we’re going to analyze some Malcolm X. Each small group will be responsible for creating a short presentation that analyzes, compares, and contrasts one aspect of Malcolm’s rhetorical strategies in both “The Ballot or the Bullet” and “Learning to Read.” Here are the topics:
- Sound-based rhetorical figures (alliteration, anaphora, etc.)
- Persona
- Kairos
- Implied and explicit assumptions
- Logical Argumentation
- Framing, metaphors, and allusions
HW: Finish College Essay
Extra: See this blog–>Always Write Badly

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