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Create your own Thug Notes for //A Murder is Announced// or Kurt Vonnegut's short story, “Harrison Bergeron.”
 * The task: **
 * Mimic the Thug Notes format.
 * Mimic the discourse and dialect of The Thug.
 * Animations not necessary.
 * Post a link to your Thug Notes below.

//New York Times// feature on //Thug Notes// [|here].

FYI: this extra credit assignment is partly inspired by James Gee's concept of [|D/discourse]. More here from Gee himself: Gee writes: "A Discourse (w/ a Capital D) is a sort of 'identity kit' which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so as to take on a particular social role that others will recognize. Imagine what an identity kit to play the role of Sherlock Holmes would involve: certain clothes, certain ways of using language (oral language and print), certain attitudes and beliefs, allegiance to a certain life style, and certain ways of interacting with others. We can call all these factors together, as they are integrated around the identity of 'Sherlock Holmes, Master Detective' the 'Sherlock Holmes Discourse'. This example also makes clear that `Discourse', as I am using the term, does not involve just talk or just language.  Another way to look at Discourses is that they are always ways of displaying (through words, actions, values and beliefs) //membership// in a particular social group or social network (people who associate with each other around a common set of interests, goals and activities). Being 'trained' as a linguist meant that I learned to speak, think and act like a linguist, and to recognize others when they do so (not just that I learned lots of facts about language and linguistics). So 'being a linguist' is one of the Discourses I have mastered" (142-3).