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- At the end of this presentation, you will have learned about six gre=
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strategies for including humor into pieces of academic writing.
- You will also see how some other people write funny.
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- “Humor has nothing to do with the charming or the cheerful. Humor is how we cope with
violated taboos and rising anxieties…Humor is our response to =
the
void of absurdity. Hum=
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comes to the fore when events render us impotent…we laugh when=
we
don’t know what…else to do.”
- -P.J. O’Rourke, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad
Haircut: 25 Years of P.J. O’Rourke
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- “Self-deprecating humor,” or making fun of yourself, is =
an
old comedy standby.
- David Sedaris is a compulsory practitioner
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- Pop culture is absurd
- Definition of “absurd”
- something that can be made fun of
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- readers laugh when you go to unexpected places with your writing.
- that’s because surprises are funny.
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- write about doing things for which your mother would reprimand you=
li>
- this is funny—it makes your reader think about doing those thi=
ngs.
- the reader laughs as he or she imagines the consequences of the acti=
ons.
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- English is laden with absurdity
- Therefore, it is rife with comic potential
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- No matter how sick you get of them, your family can still be pretty
funny to others.
- Add family humor in the form of anecdotes.
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- What is the benefit of including humor in an otherwise
“serious” piece of writing, like a homework essay on the
Roman Empire?
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- Scratching your head, you ask your computer “where else can I =
look
for tips on how to include humor into my writing?”
- Your computer cannot answer you.
- I can (I being the author, not the computer. Don’t worry. Your computer does not have=
free
will.
- Yet.).
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- whoopee cushion costume
- baby dressed like an octopus
- horse diaper
- pizza
- bruuuuuuuuuuuuce
- pyro pulverizer
- fireworks
- whoopee cushion
- funny comic one
- funny comic two
- bratty kid
- pencil
- shrug?
- funny comic three
- i love you
- bad guy on the right
- legal pad paper
- old billy
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- Using your newfound funny ability, why don’t you go ahead and =
hack
out a paragraph or two in response to one of old Billy’s promp=
ts:
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