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* If you can’t think of a response to #2, or it seems to you that your example has alreadybeen well-covered by your peers, then you can respond to the following prompt instead: Do a little web surfing to learn about a public official or some other prominent person who confronted charges of plagiarism. Summarize the incident and describe any debate surrounding it.This week, please write a subject line for your discussion contribution following the guidelines in this reading on “microstyle.”Reply to at least one classmate.
Explain or explore any differences between his/her response to #1 and your own. You may also–or instead–want to comment on a classmate’s response to #2.(Classmate response below highlight in yellow)Original passage as it appears in Postman’s book: “television has achieved the power to define the form in which news must come, and it has also defined how we shall respond to it. In presenting news to us packaged as vaudeville, television induces other media to do the same, so that the total information environment begins to mirror television.”Example 1: Television has achieved the power to define the form in which news must come, and it has also defined how we shall respond to it. In presenting news to us packaged as vaudeville, television induces other media to do the same, so that the totalinformation environment begins to mirror television.Example 2: According to media critic Neil Postman, television has achieved the power to define the form in which news must come, and it has also defined how we shall respond to it. In presenting news to us packaged as vaudeville, television induces other
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Fall '09
Ode, Quotation mark, Ghostwriter, Neil Postman, Media ecology, media critic Neil