Posted: December 22nd, 2014

Word Salad Assignment: Becoming an Effective E-Detective

Word Salad Assignment: Becoming an Effective E-Detective

?Word Salad? is a term composition instructors use to describe text they receive that appears to be a random jumble of words, as if the writer had no ability to order

their thoughts or words. (Mercifully, this is rare.)
The following word salad came to my VCU email over the summer 2010. I?ve never heard of the sender. Certainly the author has never been a VCU student. Using only the

Internet, your own powers of logic, deduction and inference, figure out what you can about the author and her strange story.
Make at least ten specific claims about this person and the details of his or her bizarre story (where the author is from, is it fact or fiction, etc?). Support each

of your claims with a line of reasoning (why you think what you think) and a hyperlink to a source that supports your claim. It should look something like this:
Claim #1: The author?s family is from the Caribbean.
Line of Reasoning: The author says his/her grandmother ?played voodoo off her rocker.? Voodoo is practiced in the Caribbean.

After at least ten of these claims, write one paragraph that brings it all together, a summary of what you found that will make sense to a reader who has never read

the original ?word salad.?
Okay?.here?s the original text as it came to my email here at VCU.

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