As discussed in class today, to prepare for response paper 4, during our Wednesday class we will engage in a debate relevant to the following two claims:
a) A fiction writer does not need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.
b) A fiction writer does need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.
If you know which claim you are going to prove in your paper, please comment to this post indicating as such by 5:15 PM on Tuesday, March 15 and I will do my best to assign you to a debate team accordingly.
A fiction writer DOES need to have personal experienced a topic.
DOES NOT*
fiction writer does not need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.
A fiction writer does not need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.
Does not
A fiction writer does need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.