{"id":764,"date":"2013-03-19T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/?p=764"},"modified":"2013-03-17T08:48:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T12:48:59","slug":"750-when-youre-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/2013\/03\/19\/750-when-youre-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"750: &#8220;When You&#8217;re Strange&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nester&#8217;s essay considers the unconsidered, exploring the less-traveled path that Morrison might be a &#8220;real poet.&#8221; What are the less-traveled paths that your essay might explore?<\/p>\n<p>Your big question should lead to sub-questions (like Nester asking &#8220;Why is it embarassing to have been obsessed with the Doors?&#8221;). List out some sub-questions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Starting the Counterargument\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nWhat are the likely objections to these &#8220;less-traveled paths&#8221; you might explore?<\/p>\n<p><em>Leads, not Intros<\/em><br \/>\nWrite a possible lead or two. You might steal a technique from Nester or Levine, or from a writer we&#8217;ve read earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Craft<\/em><br \/>\nList some techniques or moves that you might steal from this essay.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re shy of 750 words, you might consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wrestling with some of the sub-questions you just wrote about, or<\/li>\n<li>writing about your personal connection to your subject, if you haven&#8217;t done that already, considering the following:\n<ul>\n<li>What are your experiences with the subject?<\/li>\n<li>What draws you to this subject? Why do you want to think about it?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the ambivalence, or internal conflict? Why do you feel ambivalent about it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nester&#8217;s essay considers the unconsidered, exploring the less-traveled path that Morrison might be a &#8220;real poet.&#8221; What are the less-traveled paths that your essay might explore? Your big question should lead to sub-questions (like Nester asking &#8220;Why is it embarassing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/2013\/03\/19\/750-when-youre-strange\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}