What exactly is an “essay?” Most literally, it’s a try. Indeed, that trying, to express something-an idea, an argument, a situation, a problem, a person, life, beauty, emotion, or some melange of all of those-is an inexhaustible pursuit…so is writing.
Here, you will find different styles of essays I wrote during an English course focusing on the genre-defying podcast Serial.
- This conviction started it all…
←The conviction, handed down in 2000, around which Serial revolves. The question of this conviction’s accuracy waxes and wanes during Serial¸ but throughout, the adjudicatory process that led to it is presented in a way that renders the conviction invalid, if not necessarily inaccurate.
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Note about citation: The citations in every essay here are uniformly MLA-consistent footnotes, since the entries are not paginated. If they were not originally that way, they have been converted as such.
Interested in listening to Serial? It’s at http://serialpodcast.org/
If you like Serial, or even if you don’t, I’d recommend giving a few of these “This American Life,” roughly hour-long, radio pieces a try (“This American Life” could be described as the parent of Serial): http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Just some motley items. You may ask why; I ask why not?…
True story?
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Does that make me a classic?
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Let’s just conclude that, just because something sounds catchy, doesn’t mean it’s true, but not all catchy phrases are false…
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