10'23'08 In Cold Blood day8

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10.23.08 In Cold Blood day8

• Goals
• Analyze ways in which blurring line between fact
  and fiction influences experiences as well as
  theories of immersion.
• Brainstorm areas of interest in preparation for
  paper writing.

• Schedule
• Attendance Questions?
• CollectIt
• Support paragraphs and the paper at large.
• Workshop outlines.
• Discussion
• HW write and submit paper 1 finish 3 goposts
  read Hemingway presenters posts.

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Using Collectit
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7 Support Techniques.

• Personal experience.
• Statistics.
• Emotion.
• Detail.
• Supporting opinion secondary source.
• Logic.
• Examples.

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Paragraph elements.

• There is no ideal order, but a paragraph should
  accomplish the following goals
• State the purpose/point/objective of the
  paragraph, including an explanation of how it
  relates to the papers claim.
• Provide evidence for in support of the objective,
  usually in the form of quotation.
• Set the quotation in context of the story and
  your argument as a whole.
• Hit the point home.
• Transition to the next paragraph.

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Quotation Sandwich.

• The meat needs to be supported by bread. again,
  all these elements, but not necessarily in this
  order
• Set up the quote by telling us where it comes
  from in the book and why you are drawing our
  attention there as opposed to anywhere else
• Give the quotation
• Tell us what it says. Literally, just how do you
  read it. You cant trust the reader will read it
  exactly as you have if you just drop it in there.
  Tell us how to look at it.
• Explain what it is we are supposed to be seeing
  and why we should be looking at it. This is the
  so what? Answer beforehand your readers
  question of why they had to spend time reading
  all that.

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Which brings us back to stakes.

• Remember that a lot of the work of your papers is
  putting observations into a larger discussion.
• When you identify the stakes of the claim you are
  making for discussion of immersion, you want to
  highlight how each paragraph relates to those
  stakes.
• The work you do with these texts is, to some
  extent, only as good as how you present it.
• That doesnt mean be theatrical.
• Rather, the simplest observations are made great
  by showing why they are important.

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The 5-Paragraph Essay

• Intro.
• Thesis.
• Support P 1
• Support P 2
• Support P 3
• Conclusion
• Restated thesis.

• You may have written papers in this format
  before. It is very popular in secondary education
  because it is a very flexible structure. However,
  no professional writes in 5P format.
• While we may start with this base, a good goal to
  have is to move past this form into a more open
  structure you can adapt to fit your argument and
  supports. This is achieved by concentrating
  TRANSITIONS.
• The 5P tends to think of paragraphs in isolation.
  The way to get out of that form is to write in a
  way that they are interrelated, building on each
  other to get further than the individual points.
• We do not have much time to work on transitions
  now, but I wanted to bring it up for you to think
  about as you are putting your papers together. Do
  your points build or are they isolated? Have you
  explained a relation between them that extends
  beyond your grouping them together here?

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Workshopping

• Hopefully people brought more fleshed out claims
  and even outlines today.
• Get into small groups and help each other improve
  your outlines.
• Does the outline include all the elements cited
  today? topic, evidence, explanation, transition
  If not, can you help the outliner fill those
  elements in?
• Are the topics clear, related to the claim,
  related to each other?
• Does it progress logically? Convincingly?

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Discussion

• What do you remember from reading about the
  Clutters? Details? Impressions? Emotions? Make a
  list.
• Go back to the text and compare what you remember
  with what is there.
• Any significant observations?
• For immersion?

• On page 287 Mrs. Hickock becomes upset and is
  lead out of the courtroom by a woman reporter,
  the only one present. We then get a page and a
  half of what she said. I made an assumption that
  the female reporter is Harper Lee. As I read this
  section I found myself imagining the actress who
  portrayed her in the film Capote. There have
  been two films adaptations of the book as well as
  two films about Capote writing the book. Have you
  seen any of them? Did this effect how you
  imagined the events? What about the book itself?
  
• Way back on p. 165 Dewey frightens his wife when
  he shows her pictures of Perry and Dick. She says
  Think of those eyes. Coming towards you. These
  same eyes appear on the front and back cover of
  all copies of the book. Did this influence your
  immersion? Did the picture on the cover influence
  how you pictured Holcome? How much does you prior
  knowledge or preconceived notions affect your
  ability to immerse yourself in the text?