List

• Rule of threes (two normal, one funny)
• Escalate and de-escalate
• Break the pattern
• Eventually, you’re just making a joke off of the thing from before
• Lists are about building and breaking tension

Micro-jokes in readings

• Observing ridiculousness with sober lens
• Form conflicts with story they’re telling

Dear Committee Members Structure of Sentences 

1. Establish form and relationships
   1. “I’m writing to…” and says he was a Creative Writing student 
2. Characterization of student (the grade)
   1. Establish caliber of student through grade
   2. Use specific example to mirror writing style of student (run-on sentence recount of short story is similar to the messy writing expected of this mediocre student) 
   3. Example should be an immediate escalation 
3. Critique to Praise (Spin facts from #2 into a positive about the student)

• Rigid form broken by subject of form
• High praise
• (incongruity between praise and truth)
• Recast concerning trait as praise