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Hypotaxis and Parataxis
- Please read the accounts of a fever by Rushdie and Malouf. I trust that, like me, you’ll find them very different. Working with a partner, see if you can if you can put a name to their diverging tones or styles: How would you describe their differences? Then, see if you can point to some strategies (try to list at least three or four for each) that the writer uses to achieve his particular tone.
- Handout
- With a partner again, look back over one of the three essays (Beard, Berry, Biss) we’ve read for this week from the Touchstone Anthology. Would you describe the piece as primarily hypotactic or paratactic? Locate a passage that supports your reading
Researching Your Curriculum Units
- Fastwrite: Please jot down a few sentences about each of the two texts you’ve brought with you. Briefly describe (a) what the text is about, (b) why it interests you, and (c) how it might inform or fit into your unit.
- Groups: Share and discuss your texts. As a group, choose one “teacher text” and one “student text” that you think will be of interest to everyone in seminar. Be ready to say why.
A Problem With How Essays Get Anthologized
For Next Week (10/02/2017)
- Please read (or re-read) the essays by Cheryl Strayed and David Foster Wallace in the Touchstone Anthology. I’ve chosen these two pieces because they are among the very most acclaimed essays published in this century. What does that tell you about what contemporary readers and critics seem to most value in creative nonfiction?
- Please also locate a brief nonfiction piece (800 words or less) that you admire that responds to a current social or political event or issue.
- Continue to work on your unit! Send me an email if there is anything I can help you with!
The Fourth Genre: Creative Nonfiction 