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This week’s discussion question has two parts I’d like you to answer:

1. In his short essay, “How to Write a Literary Journalistic Essay,” Dave Hood provides a number of tips for people (like you) who are going to be writing a work of Literary Journalism. Describe some of the tips he gives that are seen in Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s “A Most American Terrorist.” That is, what makes Gaansah’s essay an exemplary work of literary journalism?
2. In the lecture next week, I mentioned that Ghansah’s essay attempts to find the reason/s behind the evil actions of Dylann Roof. In your own words, what are the answers that Ghansah comes up with?  Do you find them convincing?