10.21.08 | In Cold Blood [day6] Goal[s]: Schedule: Attendance & Questions? Discussion Brainstorming Claims HW – Finish ICB for Thursday. Bring paper ideas for tomorrow. Goal[s]: Brainstorm areas of interest in preparation for paper writing. Refine brainstorming in order to make hypothetical claims.

Discussion Throughout the book, Capote provides several perspectives of the same moment in time. Does receiving several perspectives of the same moment in time enhance your immersion (your virtual reality) or does it hinder it by sort of rewinding the scene in your virtual reality and replaying from a different perspective? Why do you think Capote interjected (in pages 203-206) the events that were happening to Bobby Rupp around Christmastime and the Christmas story that Mr. Clutter had told him. This passage is after we find out that Dick and Perry are in Florida and shortly before they are arrested. What do you think Capote's intention was in doing this? Did you find this passage random at all? Did the change of focus at this point in the story disrupt your immersion or add to it?

Get back with the group you were with yesterday. Brainstorming. Get back with the group you were with yesterday. Your task as a group is to produce one big web, but don’t just patch everyone’s together. Start from scratch and talk about how to organize the branches. Step back and observe how your group’s organization emphasizes some things and not others. The webbing exercise works in two related ways. First, it helps get ideas out and, second, it makes you think about relationships between concepts, quotations, scenes, etc. One way to emphasize the second part, which is great for preparing to outline, is to organize the webbing.

Claims [first draft] What is a “claim?” Where does it typically appear in a paper? What is its purpose?

First drafting First time through, your claim will be more like a hypothesis. Its an initial thought that directs a line of inquiry, gives you some guidelines for reading and writing. YOU WILL REVISE YOUR CLAIM BEFORE YOUR FINAL DRAFT AND THAT IS OKAY. Paper writing, if done correctly, should be a process of discovery. Many times that means changing the way you conceived of the project.

Practice. With your group, look over your brainstorming diagram. What are some hypothetical claims you could make right now from the evidence you have outlined?