You Can't Say That! : Controversial Language
Welcome to WR121, section 9 (Spring 2010).
Our theme is controversial language, exploring topics from prescriptive grammar to book banning and other censorship to subversive genres such as manifestos.
This class is designed to get you thinking about the language we use - both in your own writing and in reading work by others. We will analyze texts by professional writers for their rhetorical moves, and you will critique each other's work through the peer review process.
My goal is to prepare you to participate in a community of college writers and also give you skills you can use in many other writing communities you may join both during school and after you graduate.
We will be exploring these topics through informal responses and writing researched pieces in multiple genres - academic papers, news articles, editorials, and manifestos.
Digication is an online portfolio system, where you can share your own work and read and comment on what your classmates have written as well. Click on one of the four units at the top, or one of the page links to the left, to get started.
Some Controversy for your eyes
Koala’s Aren’t Hard-Revision
7 I don’t like koalas. 3.Even though I know a lot about them, for example, 9they all are small and fat and they climb trees, 4they're just a waste of time. Koalas are stupid and they don't help me with shit so why should I help them. 5If they all die there will be more room for the panthers and all the other hard animals 28 Koalas are useless to society and should be left to nature to do what it do and kill them.
10/11/12 The other animals of the jungle will benefit if the Koalas fall out of the trees break their necks and die. 13 Koalas are weak animals because they do not know how to defend themselves. 14 Instead of fighting for their lives they run up a tree to hide. 35 Because of this they are not fit to survive in the animal kingdom like the Kangaroos.
16 Kangaroos the far better marsupial, are examples of a fit species that will survive. 18 This is because they use their large legs and tail to defend themselves and their family. 16 They try to be in the kangaroo family but they are not. 17 They’re weak as hell, talking about they have a pouch like the kangaroo so they’re cousins and shit. 18/19 All koalas have is some little ass legs, and weak tails. 27 They can’t survive among the other animals. 21 For example, if the koala went to get some water it won't be able to breathe with its little short self. It'd drown soon as it takes one step into the water! 22While they’re at the river trying to get something to drink a bear could just come to him and snatch its hinnies up.
29 According to Darwinist theory on natural selection Koalas don’t have a place in this world. 30/32Therefore, we should introduce those entire Koala’s in captivity to the wild. In the end, Koalas don’t do anything but sit in the trees and eat, it is important that this race be diminished. 35 They have zero means of protection and therefore they were sent here to die.