Finding Arguments in Lived Experience (continued)

You might judge such a poem “emotional” or “artsy” and place it squarely outside the world of rigor and argument and research. But not so. Lived experience—wild, passionate, violent, chaotic lived experience, and more ordinary quiet daily experience—are the stuff of argument. The Osage Avenue event became a court case that was investigated, researched and very formally argued in court. It wasn’t just about “issues” that you may or may not be interested in, it wasn’t just about individual versus government rights, it was very concretely—as all issues are—about someone’s life. Good writers, whether news writers, political writers, ad writers, or report writers, link lived details with issues. You’ll hear that point over and over again this semester. You might be interested in the resolution to the Osage Avenue event. If so, link to this quotation from that same CNN Interactive news account. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 CNN1-Poem-Questions-Quotation Contents Eldred-University of Kentucky English-University of Kentucky Writing Program-Town and Gown

Osage Avenue in 1985 (read article) Image & story from Philadelphia citypaper.net