Electronic Text: CNN’s Political ticker. This is a site where short news articles are posted and then the average person can comment upon the article and express their thoughts and feelings. This form of writing is different from the classic novel, obviously, and newspaper, but I think it still has legitimate value. This idea of sharing ones opinions and beliefs in a public forum would cause Birkerts to criticize such a site as well.
Thesis: I believe that literature is any text that expresses beliefs and ideas, therefore, as CNN’s Political Ticker is a forum where opinions and comments can be shared with the rest of the world, I believe that it is a legitimate form of writing.
Birkerts: “Privacies of reading”
Counter Argument: One could argue that, because these comments are not edited or written by professional writers, the value of their opinions
April 20, 2010 at 1:02 am |
the key to your focus and argument, the public and communal nature of the site–you can thus argue more specifically that a particular aspect of writing that you value is community or social connection. your counter-argument can help develop that as well.