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Day: April 12, 2016

Humor: A Hard Way to Write an Essay

Satire•Posted April 12, 2016•2 Comment(s)

Jennifer Crystal challenged our Grub Street class to write a 500-1,000 word essay “using humor to make a point.” In speech and writing, I pepper people with puns and jokes. But humor for revelation? In our assignment from Writing Well, William Zinsser demonstrates comic devices. To question women’s public adornment with hair curlers in the […]

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