Prompt #3: What makes an analysis innovative?

For this next prompt, you'll need to do some library footwork. I've already located the call number and other pertinent information, all you need to do is go and make the photocopies. You'll need to go to Leavey Libary to find the following book:

The Best American Essays of the Century, ed. by Joyce Carol Oates. The call number is PS688.B47 2000x, and you'll find the text in the general bookstacks.

From this text, you will select one of the two following sets of essays in order to answer the prompt.

On Technology:

• The Future is Now, by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 193-198
  
• Sex ex Machina, by James Thurber, pp. 153-158
  

On Racism:

• How it Feels to be Colored Me, by Zora Neale Hurston, pp. 114-117
  
• Bop, by Langston Hughes, pp. 190-192

Answers to this prompt and classmate comments are due by 10pm on Wednesday, Friday February 7th.