Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. i cannot make myself understood. ‘i am not just a jock,’ i say slowly. distinctly. ‘my transcript for the last year might have been dickied a bit, maybe, but that was to get me over a rough spot. the grades prior to that are de moi.’ my eyes are closed; the room is silent. ‘i cannot make myself understood, now.’ i am speaking slowly and distinctly. ‘call it something i ate.’ it’s funny what you don’t recall. our first home, in the suburb of weston, which i barely remember—my eldest brother orin says he can remember being in the home’s backyard with our mother in the early spring, the moms till some sort of garden out of the cold yard. march or early april. the garden’s area was a rough rectangle laid out with popsicle sticks and twine. which element of structure most contributes to the postmodern quality of this excerpt? sudden shift of time and setting

The element of structure that most contributes to the postmodern quality of the excerpt presented is the unusual language and sentence structure.

James Fleming defines postmodern literature as "a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference." The author of the excerpt uses unusual language, changing languages mid-sentence for example, and one word sentences that are not common in previous litetary forms.

research question: do the predicted benefits of genetic enhancements outweigh the possible negative consequences of this technology?  

what information do i need to research in order to answer this question?  

-predicted benefits of genetic enhancements

-negative consequences of genetic enhancements

-existing, if any, consequences of the new technology

-possible consequences if the technology is perfected

what sources will have the information?

-scientific research documents or news articles summarizing research

-articles in science and medical journals, magazines, and electronic databases

-books

-experts at genetics: geneticists, scientists, professors

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