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| Inventing Ideas | |
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| Asking Questions | |
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| Re-Inventing Education | |
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| Considering The Essay | |
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| Reading for Intellectual Agility and Rhetoric | |
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| Applying Rhetoric To Your Own Writing | |
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| How To Use The Composition Of Everyday Life | |
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| Sample Essays | |
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| Writing Topics | |
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| Invention | |
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| Inventing Ideas Assignment | |
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| Remembering Who You Were | |
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| Readings | |
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| “Selling Manure,“ Bonnie Jo Campbell | |
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| “How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant,“ Cindy Bosley | |
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| “The Thrill of Victory | |
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| The Agony of Parents,“ Jennifer Schwind-Pawlak [Student essay] | |
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| Invention | |
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| Point of Contact | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Thinking Further | |
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| Public Resonance | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Evolution of a Thesis | |
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| Common Thesis Problems | |
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| Rhetorical Tools | |
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| Narration | |
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| Allusions | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Writer's Voice | |
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| Vitality | |
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| Revision | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Peer Review Truisms | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Explaining Relationships | |
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| Readings | |
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| “Americans and the Land,“ John Steinbeck | |
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| Mugged,“ Jim Crockett | |
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| “Delicate Friend,“ Lauren Jackson [Student essay] | |
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| Invention | |
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| Point of Contact | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Thinking Further | |
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| Public Resonance | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Evolution of a Thesis | |
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| Rhetorical Tools | |
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| Using Narration | |
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| Using Description | |
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| Using Figurative Language | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Writer's Voice | |
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| Vitality | |
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| Revision | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Beyond the Essay | |
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| Observing | |
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| Readings | |
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| “Heart of Sand,“ Anne-Marie Oomen | |
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| “The Front Porch,“ Chester McCovey | |
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| “Corpse Colloquy,“ Justin Scott [Student essay] | |
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| Invention | |
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| Point of Contact | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Thinking Further | |
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| Public Resonance | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Evolution of a Thesis | |
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| Rhetorical Tools | |
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| Using Details | |
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| Using Narrative | |
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| Using Allusions | |
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| Using Figurative Language | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Writer's Voice | |
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| Vitality | |
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| Revision | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Analyzing Concepts | |
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| Readings | |
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| “Black Like I Thought I Was,“ Erin Aubry Kaplan | |
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| “World Gone Mad,“ Derrick Jensen | |
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| “'Have It Your Way': Consumerism Invades Education,“ Simon Benlow | |
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| “The Real, The Bad, and The Ugly,“ Cassie Heidecker [Student essay] | |
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| “What Is Education?“ Petra Pepellashi [Student essay] | |
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| Invention | |
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| Point of Contact | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Thinking Further | |
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| Public Resonance | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Evolution of a Thesis | |
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| Rhetorical Tools | |
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| Examples and Contrary Examples | |
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| Definitions and References | |
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| Outside Sources | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Writer's Voice | |
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| Vitality | |
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| Revision | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Beyond the Essay: Conceptual Mapping | |
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| Analyzing Images | |
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| Readings | |
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| “Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream,“ Elizabeth Thoman | |
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| “The Mighty Image,“ Cameron Johnson | |
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| “An Imperfect Reality,“ Rebecca Hollingsworth [Student essay] | |
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| Invention | |
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| Point of Contact | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Image | |
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| Text | |
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| Subtext | |
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| Context | |
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| Thinking Further | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Common Thesis Problems | |
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| Evolution of a Thesis | |
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| Rhetorical Tools | |
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| Using Details from the Image | |
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| Using Other Evidence | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Writer's Voice | |
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| Vitality | |
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| Revision | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Making Arguments | |
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| Readings | |
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| “The Dog Delusion,“ April Pedersen | |
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| “Cruelty, Civility, and Other Weighty Matters,“ Ann Marie Paulin | |
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| “Floppy Disk Fallacies,“ Elizabeth Bohnhorst [Student Essay] | |
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| “Whales R Us,“ Jayme Stayer | |
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| Invention | |
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| Point of Contact | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Thinking Further | |
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| Public Resonance | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Evolution of a Thesis | |
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| Common Thesis Problems | |
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| Rhetorical Tools | |
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| Support | |
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| Counterargument | |
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| Concession and Qualifier | |
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| Caution: Logical Fallacies Ahead | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Writer's Voice | |
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| Vitality | |
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| Revision | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Beyond the Essay: The Open Letter | |
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| Responding to Arguments | |
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| Readings | |
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| “What Orwell Didn't Know,“ George Lakoff | |
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| “Entitlement Education,“ Daniel Bruno | |
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| “Reality Check,“ Allison Hester [Student essay] | |
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| Invention | |
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| Point of Contact | |
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| Analysis | |
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| The First Layer: The Four Elements of Argument | |
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| The Second Layer: Warranting Assumptions | |
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| Public Resonance | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Evolution of a Thesis | |
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| Thinking Further | |
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| Rhetorical Tools | |
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| Using Support | |
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| Counterarguing | |
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| Conceding and Qualifying Points | |
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| Remembering Logical Fallacies | |
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| Organizational Strategies | |
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| Writer's Voice | |
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| Rogerian Argument | |
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| Vitality | |
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| Revision | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Evaluating | |
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| Readings | |