Ask your students to play around with Context and Framing

As many scholars have argued narrative journalists often remove (see the link here) “attribution” as a way to improve the realistic impact of what they write (see Chapter 3). But is that always the case? This site offers an example, from John Hersey, about one might put “attribution” back into places where Hersey chose not to put them in, in the first place. (The example here is that of Hersey’s Hiroshima [1946])/Note that the attributions added in bold print are merely invented here, not the actual sources that Hersey used.  Invite your students to have a discussion about what changes from the original to the passages where the attributions have been added. Or, if you like have them try this with a short passage from any text you’re teaching.

Passage from Hiroshima

Adding attribution /Rev. Tanimoto

Adding Attribution/ Mr. Tanimoto’s morning