Thursday - 4-8-10

My paper on Gonzo Journalism is primarily a Definition paper. As stated in Chapter Eight of Lunsford’s book, Arguments of Definition are exactly that, a paper that sets out to give a definition to something. Most of the research that I found dealt with defining what exactly Gonzo Journalism even was – they debated whether or not it was fact or fiction or journalism or storytelling among many other things, just as in Selbers article Multiliteracies for a Digital Age where the sole purpose of the paper was do decide what exactly should be considered digital literacy. There is a lot of mystery as to what should and should not fit under this umbrella. Some say that only Hunter S. Thompsons writing should qualify, others are much more lenient. Towards the end of my paper it becomes more of a factual paper, such as described in Chapter Seven of Lunsford’s book – Arguments of Fact. The fact that I am proving is whether or not Gonzo Journalism is still around today. The reason the fact has to be argued is because not everybody is willing to see the truth of it, or maybe people aren’t ready to accept the operational definition that is used to establish the truth in question.