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| Chapter Practices and Writing Assignment Suggestions | |
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| Introduction to Argument and Arguing about Literature | |
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| Text as Argument Argument as Text Why Argue about Anything? | |
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| Why We Can Argue about Literature What about Literature Is Arguable? | |
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| Turning In / Turning Out Why Should We Be Concerned about Argument? | |
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| What Is the Urgency that Prompts an Argument? | |
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| Who Are You Trying to Influence? | |
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| What Are Some Possible Audience Responses? | |
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| What are some barriers the audience may create to resist the argument? | |
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| What are some of the constraints within which you must work? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Selections Poem, We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks Short Story, The Holocaust Party | |
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| Argument Structure and Strategies | |
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| Argument Structure Claims | |
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| Claim Qualifiers Evidence | |
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| Kinds of Support | |
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| Characteristics of Support | |
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| Warrants Backing Refutation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter 2 | |
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| A Curtain Up Review: The Laramie Project | |
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| Elyse Sommer Review | |
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| (Mostly) Harmless Theatre Production | |
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| The Laramie Project | |
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| Steve Callahan Essay | |
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| A Modest Proposal | |
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| Jonathan Swift | |
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| Part 2 | |
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| Why Are You Reading | |
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| The Process(es) of reading for pleasure vs. reading for an academic assignment | |
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| Chapter 3 | |
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| Whats Going on Here? | |
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| Annotation Skeleton Outline Summary | |
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| Chapter 3 | |
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| Say I, Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti Short Story | |
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| Geoffrey Becker Poem | |
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| Call It Fear | |
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| The Welcome Table | |
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| Chapter 4 | |
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| Happening Within The Reader? | |
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| Photo Collage Dialogue Identifying Patterns of Response | |
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| Chapter 4 | |
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| Chapter 5 | |
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| What is the framework for this text? | |
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| Personal Inventory Author Inventory | |
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| Cultural/Historical Inventory | |
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| Chapter 5 | |
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| Part 3 | |
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| Chapter 6 | |
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| Turning In Making and Supporting Claims about Literature | |
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| Tools for Turning In: Deconstruction Repetition Opposition | |
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| Tools for Turning In: New Criticism Imagery and Symbolism | |
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| Similes and Metaphors Connotation and Denotation | |
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| Chapter 6 | |