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An Introduction to Rhetoric | |
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The Rhetorical Situation | |
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Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos | |
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Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Texts | |
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Determining Effective and Ineffective Rhetoric | |
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Glossary of Rhetorical Terms | |
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Close Reading | |
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Analyzing Style | |
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Talking with the Text | |
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Writing a Close Analysis Essay | |
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Close Reading a Visual Text | |
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Glossary of Style Elements | |
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Analyzing Arguments | |
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Staking a Claim | |
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Presenting Evidence | |
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Analyzing Visual Arguments | |
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Shaping Arguments | |
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Glossary of Argument Terms and Logical | |
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Fallacies | |
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Synthesizing Sources | |
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Using Sources to Inform an Argument | |
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Using Sources to Appeal to an Audience | |
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Conversation: Mandatory Community Service | |
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Writing a Synthesis Essay | |
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Conversation: The Dumbest Generation? | |
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Education | |
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Do our schools serve the goals of a true education? | |
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Central Essay | |
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Francine Prose, I Know Why the Caged Bird | |
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Cannot Read | |
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Classic Essay | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Education | |
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Other Voices | |
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A Talk to Teachers | |
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School | |
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Superman and Me | |
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Me Talk Pretty One Day | |
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Best in Class | |
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On Life and Work | |
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Story | |
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Eleven | |
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Visual | |
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The Spirit of Education | |
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*Visual | |
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What I Learned | |
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Conversation: The American High School | |
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from The Report of the Mass. Board of Education | |
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The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut | |
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Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood | |
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Two Scoreboards (cartoon) | |
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Stop the Madness | |
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U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective (tables) | |
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Shanghai Schools' Approach Pushes Students to Top of Tests | |
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Student Writing | |
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Argument: Using Personal Experience as Evidence | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Appositives | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Community | |
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Central Essay | |
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Letter from Birmingham Jail (with public statement) | |
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Classic Essay | |
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived for | |
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Other Voices | |
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The Family That Stretches (Together) | |
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Commencement Speech | |
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Walking the Path between Worlds | |
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Health and Happiness | |
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Home at Last | |
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Facebook Friendonomics | |
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Small Change | |
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Poem | |
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Child of the Americas | |
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*Paired Visuals | |
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Freedom from Want | |
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The Last Thanksgiving | |
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*Visual | |
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The Black Experience Is Everywhere | |
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Conversation: The Individual's Responsibility to the Community | |
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from The Gospel of Wealth | |
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The Happy Life | |
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Lifeboat Ethics | |
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The Singer Solution to World Poverty | |
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World Economic Forum (cartoon) | |
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Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the Billionaire Challenge | |
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Negative Reaction to Charity Campaign | |
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Student Writing | |
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Synthesis: Incorporating Sources into a Revision | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Parallel Structures | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Economics | |
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Central Essay | |
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from Serving in Florida | |
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Classic Essay | |
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A Modest Proposal | |
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Other Voices | |
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from The Roots of Honor | |
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from The Atlanta Exposition Address | |
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Dumpster Diving | |
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In the Strawberry Fields | |
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What the Bagel Man Saw | |
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The Case for Working with Your Hands | |
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How to Restore the American Dream | |
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*Poem | |
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To Be of Use | |
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Visual | |
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The Great GAPsby Society | |
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*Visual | |
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A "Handy" Guide to the Housing Market | |
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Conversation: Materialism in American Culture | |
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from Economy | |
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from Consumer Behavior and the Dependence Effect | |
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Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today | |
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Waste | |
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from The New Politics of Consumption | |
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Shop Happy | |
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In Praise of Chain Stores | |
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Forbes Price Index of Luxury Goods (table) | |
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Student Writing | |
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Close Reading: Analyzing Style in a Prose Passage | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Short Simple Sentences and Fragments | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Gender | |
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Central Essay | |
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Women's Brains | |
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Classic Essay | |
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Professions for Women | |
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Other Voices | |
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The Speech of Polly Baker | |
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Letters | |
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I Want a Wife | |
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Just Walk on By | |
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There Is No Unmarked Woman | |
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Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men? | |
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Poem | |
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Barbie Doll | |
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*Paired Visuals | |
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Chancellor Seguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris | |
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The Chancellor Seguier on Horseback | |
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Conversation: Defining Masculinity | |
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Marlboro Man (photo) | |
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Being a Man | |
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About Men | |
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Putting down the Gun | |
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Why Johnny Won't Read | |
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Mind over Muscle | |
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Student Writing: Argument | |
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Supporting an Assertion | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Pronouns | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Sports | |
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Central Essay | |
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Silent Season of a Hero | |
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*Classic Essay | |
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The Four Horsemen | |
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Other Voices | |
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The Proper Place for Sports | |
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The Cruelest Sport | |
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A Spectator's Notebook | |
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Barbaro, The Heart in the Winner's Circle | |
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Offensive Play | |
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Why I Love My Job | |
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The Great Game | |
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Poem | |
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Ex-Basketball Player | |
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*Visual | |
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New York World, The 12th Man in Any Football Game | |
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*Visual | |
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Sports Illustrated, Yes! (cover) | |
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Conversation: Paying College Athletes | |
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I'm glad we won... (cartoon) | |
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Pay Dirt | |
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Serfs of the Turf | |
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My Priceless Opportunity | |
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As Colleges' Greed Grows, So Does the Hypocrisy | |
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Despite Criticism, NCAA Takes a Firm Stance on Professionalism | |
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*NCAA, Why Students Aren't Paid to Play | |
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Student Writing | |
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Rhetorical Analysis: Comparison and Contrast | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Precise, Direct, and Active Verbs | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Language | |
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Central Essay | |
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Mother Tongue | |
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Classic Essay | |
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Politics and the English Language | |
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Other Voices | |
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Slang in America | |
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue | |
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Always Living in Spanish | |
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The 'F Word' | |
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In Plain English | |
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Words Don't Mean What They Mean | |
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Poems | |
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For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 & Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation | |
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*Visual | |
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U.S. Census, Language Use in the U.S. | |
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*Visual | |
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The Effects of Bilingualism | |
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Conversation: Politics and the English Language | |
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*Institute for Propaganda Analysis, How to Detect Propaganda | |
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The Word Police | |
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Skinning Cats, Nonviolently (table) | |
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NCAA Native American Mascots (cartoon) | |
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The -ism Schism | |
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The War of Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines (with letters to the editor) | |
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from Words that Work | |
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Student Writing | |
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Personal Essay: Reflecting on "Different Englishes" | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Coordination in the Compound Sentence | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Popular Culture | |
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*Central Essay | |
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Hip Hop Planet | |
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Classic Essay | |
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Corn-pone Opinions | |
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Other Voices | |
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Show and Tell (graphic essay) | |
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High-School Confidential | |
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An Image a Little Too Carefully Coordinated | |
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter | |
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Celebrity Bodies | |
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My Zombie, Myself | |
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Poem | |
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Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven | |
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Visual | |
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The Innocent Eye Test | |
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*Visual | |
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Myths | |
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Conversation: Exporting American Pop Culture | |
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The Revolution Is U.S. | |
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Besieged by 'Friends' | |
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Who's Dominating Whom? | |
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from The Case for Contamination | |
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The Perils of Soft Power | |
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The U.S. Can Reclaim Smart Power | |
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Slovakian Fan at World Cup (photos) | |
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Student Writing | |
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Rhetorical Analysis: Analyzing Satire | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Modifiers | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Environment | |
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Central Essay | |
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Silent Spring | |
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Classic Essay | |
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from Nature | |
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Other Voices | |
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The Land Ethic | |
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Natural Man | |
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The Solution | |
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The Clan of One-Breasted Women | |
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Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp | |
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from The Future of Life | |
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*Poem | |
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Inversnaid | |
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Visual | |
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Shell, Cloud the Issue or Clear the Air | |
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*Visual | |
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HSBC, Windmills | |
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Conversation: Sustainable Eating | |
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Hungry Planet (photo essay) | |
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A Naturalist in the Supermarket | |
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The Locavore Myth | |
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The American Table and the Global Table | |
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Carnivore's Dilemma | |
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A Good Food Manifesto for America | |
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Farm to Table | |
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from Test-Tube Burgers | |
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Student Writing | |
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Visual Analysis: Analyzing a Photo Essay | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Politics | |
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Central Essay | |
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On Seeing England for the First Time | |
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Classic Essay | |
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | |
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Other Voices | |
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The Gettysburg Address | |
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Thoughts on Peace During an Air Raid | |
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from The Destruction of Culture | |
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot | |
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The Apology | |
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The Veil | |
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Story | |
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On the Rainy River | |
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*Visual | |
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Amusing Ourselves to Death | |
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Conversation: Colonialism | |
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Letter to King Ferdinand | |
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Letter to Taino Indians | |
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Defense of Native American Religion | |
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Shooting an Elephant | |
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The Empire Fights Back | |
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Concerning Violence | |
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National Park Service, Christiansted (brochure) | |
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In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poem) | |
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Student Writing | |
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Synthesis: Using Sources to Support an Argument | |
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | |
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Subordination in the Complex Sentence | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |