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.

To assist you in preparing a Works Cited page for response paper 3, below please find the publication information for “Beach” — you’ll need to format it according to MLA standards for your Works Cited:

• author:  Roberto Bolaño
• short story title:  “Beach”
• published in: Between Parenthesis, 2011, New Directions Publishing (NYC)