Can you love adjectives too much?

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:

  1. Sound-based rhetorical figures (alliteration, anaphora, etc.)
  2. Persona
  3. Kairos
  4. Implied and explicit assumptions
  5. Logical Argumentation
  6. Framing, metaphors, and allusions

HW: Finish College Essay

Extra: See this blog–>Always Write Badly

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