Academic Argument: an evidence-based defense of a non-obvious position on a complex issue.
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Before and after making a meme of myself as Oberon, King of the Faeries
The Curtains Were Blue: In Which I Fix Another Meme.
Above is my response to a meme that makes some shaky assumptions about the purpose of an English classroom. Exploring the intent of the author is a huge part of the English discipline, but it’s far from the only way to study (or teach) literature. Author intent, new historicism, reader-response, structuralism… the list goes on. Perhaps I will make more of these memes to introduce some of these other topics…
Journalism 101: I fixed this meme for you.
I can sympathize with the sentiment, but the top part of this meme (the white text on black background) is not how I’d frame the situation. My take (which I’ve added underneath the original) is that when two sources disagree, assuming that one must be right and the other must be wrong is a form of bias. What if one source is in New York and the other is in…
