10'21'08 In Cold Blood day6

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10.21.08 In Cold Blood day6

• Schedule
• Attendance Questions?
• Discussion
• Brainstorming
• Claims
• HW Finish ICB for Thursday. Bring paper ideas
  for tomorrow.

• Goals
• Brainstorm areas of interest in preparation for
  paper writing.
• Refine brainstorming in order to make
  hypothetical claims.

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Discussion

• Throughout the book, Capote provides several
  perspectives of the same moment in time. Does
  receiving several perspectives of the same moment
  in time enhance your immersion (your virtual
  reality) or does it hinder it by sort of
  rewinding the scene in your virtual reality and
  replaying from a different perspective?

• Why do you think Capote interjected (in pages
  203-206) the events that were happening to Bobby
  Rupp around Christmastime and the Christmas story
  that Mr. Clutter had told him. This passage is
  after we find out that Dick and Perry are in
  Florida and shortly before they are arrested.
  What do you think Capote's intention was in doing
  this? Did you find this passage random at all?
  Did the change of focus at this point in the
  story disrupt your immersion or add to it?

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Brainstorming.

• Get back with the group you were with yesterday.
• Your task as a group is to produce one big web,
  but dont just patch everyones together.
• Start from scratch and talk about how to organize
  the branches.
• Step back and observe how your groups
  organization emphasizes some things and not
  others.

• The webbing exercise works in two related ways.
  First, it helps get ideas out and, second, it
  makes you think about relationships between
  concepts, quotations, scenes, etc. One way to
  emphasize the second part, which is great for
  preparing to outline, is to organize the webbing.

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Claims first draft

• What is a claim?
• Where does it typically appear in a paper?
• What is its purpose?

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First drafting

• First time through, your claim will be more like
  a hypothesis. Its an initial thought that directs
  a line of inquiry, gives you some guidelines for
  reading and writing.
• YOU WILL REVISE YOUR CLAIM BEFORE YOUR FINAL
  DRAFT AND THAT IS OKAY.
• Paper writing, if done correctly, should be a
  process of discovery. Many times that means
  changing the way you conceived of the project.

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Practice.

• With your group, look over your brainstorming
  diagram.
• What are some hypothetical claims you could make
  right now from the evidence you have outlined?