Blog #6 - Consider the Lobster
Please post your response to this piece by David Foster Wallace. Of course, you are encouraged to respond in any way you find meaningful, but I'd like to invite you to consider writing about how this could be seen as a research paper. How does this piece challenge your ideas of that genre? How does it affirm your ideas of the "research" genre?
Also, now that you've got the hang of posting, I want you to try to develop your skills as a blogger/responder. Maybe that means writing a longer post. Maybe it means looking for an angle no one else can have because it comes from an experience unique to you. Maybe it challenges accepted ideas--even ideas presented in the texts for class, classroom discussion, and yes, even and especially my ideas/angles/biases as the instructor of the course.
We are going to be returning to this text quite a few times during the term, so it is important that you become familiar with it. Please read the whole thing at least once, and try to re-read a few parts of it.
I'm looking forward to reading your work.
Oh! And for those of you who are more auditorily inclined, you can listen to David Foster Wallace read his work. The piece uses a lot of footnotes, so that becomes an issue for this piece when it is read aloud. Foster Wallace addresses this at the beginning of the recording.
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