October 28, 2009 Archives
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Ex 6: Editorial
Book banning? Library budgets? Bookstore prices? Copyright and intellectual property rights?
Write an 800-word editorial on an issue related to literature -- broadly speaking. Submit by uploading to Turnitin.com. (You are welcome to blog your editorial, or submit it somewhere for publication, including The Setonian. Most publications have "submission guidelines" that will help increase your chances of being published.)
An editorial is a form of journalism. Write shorter paragraphs than you're used to writing for academic papers. Feel free to interview experts and people on the street.
Prefer current events and widely-known examples to old, obscure ones. (If you want to write about freedom on Huck Finn's raft, can you somehow tie it to lessons we've learned from Balloon Boy's box? If you want to write about the fool in King Lear, can you somehow tie it to Saturday Night Live's recent spoof of Obama?) This does not mean you should dumb down your thesis, but it does mean you are writing for the general reader, one who has not sat through the lectures and seminars you've sat through.
About Editorials
Write an 800-word editorial on an issue related to literature -- broadly speaking. Submit by uploading to Turnitin.com. (You are welcome to blog your editorial, or submit it somewhere for publication, including The Setonian. Most publications have "submission guidelines" that will help increase your chances of being published.)
An editorial is a form of journalism. Write shorter paragraphs than you're used to writing for academic papers. Feel free to interview experts and people on the street.
Prefer current events and widely-known examples to old, obscure ones. (If you want to write about freedom on Huck Finn's raft, can you somehow tie it to lessons we've learned from Balloon Boy's box? If you want to write about the fool in King Lear, can you somehow tie it to Saturday Night Live's recent spoof of Obama?) This does not mean you should dumb down your thesis, but it does mean you are writing for the general reader, one who has not sat through the lectures and seminars you've sat through.
About Editorials
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