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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Persuading with Good Reasons | |
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What do we mean by argument? | |
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What does "argument" | |
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mean for college writers? | |
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How can you argue responsibly? | |
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How can you argue respectfully? | |
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Reading And Discovering Arguments | |
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Why Argue? | |
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Why do people write arguments? | |
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Why do some arguments succeed? | |
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What are the goals of arguments? | |
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What are rhetorical appeals? | |
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Finding Good Reasons | |
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The Obligation to Endure | |
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Reading Arguments | |
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Become a critical reader | |
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Read actively | |
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Recognize fallacies | |
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Respond as a reader | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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Finding Arguments | |
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Find arguments in everyday conversations | |
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Find a topic that interests you | |
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Find a claim by exploring | |
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Find a claim by reading | |
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Find good reasons | |
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Find evidence to support good reasons | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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Drafting and Revising Arguments | |
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State and evaluate your thesis | |
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Think about your readers | |
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Organize your argument | |
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Write an engaging title and introduction | |
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Write a strong conclusion | |
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Evaluate your draft | |
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Respond to the writing of others | |
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Edit and proofread carefully | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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Analyzing Arguments | |
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Analyzing Written Arguments | |
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What is rhetorical analysis? | |
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Build a rhetorical analysis | |
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Analyze the rhetorical features | |
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Analyze the rhetorical context | |
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Write a rhetorical analysis | |
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Statement on the Articles of Impeachment | |
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An Argument of Reason and Passion: Barbara Jordan's "Statement on the Articles of Impeachment" | |
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Steps to writing a rhetorical analysis | |
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Analyzing Visual Arguments | |
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What is a visual argument? | |
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Analyze visual persuasion | |
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Analyze visual evidence | |
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Build a visual analysis | |
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Write a visual analysis | |
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Got Roddick? | |
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Steps to writing a visual analysis | |
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Writing Arguments | |
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Options for Arguments | |
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Use different approaches to construct arguments | |
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Be aware of your goals for argument | |
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Finding good reasons: What do we mean by diversity? | |
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Definition Arguments | |
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Understand how definition arguments work | |
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Recognize kinds of definitions | |
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Build a definition argument | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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Setting the Record Straight | |
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Speech Doesn't Have to Be Pretty to Be Protected | |
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Steps to writing a definition argument | |
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Causal Arguments | |
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Understand how causal arguments work | |
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Find causes | |
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Build a causal argument | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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The Real Marriage Penalty | |
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Why Should I Be Nice to You? Coffee Shops and the Politics of Good Service | |
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Steps to writing a causal argument | |
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Evaluation Arguments | |
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Understand how evaluation arguments work | |
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Recognize kinds of evaluations | |
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Build an evaluation argument | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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Gangsta Rap and American Culture | |
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Stop Loss or "Loss of Trust" | |
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Steps to writing an evaluation argument | |
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Narrative Arguments | |
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Understand how narrative arguments work | |
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Recognize kinds of narrative arguments | |
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Build a narrative argument | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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The Border Patrol State | |
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My Landlady's Yard | |
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Steps to writing a narrative argument | |
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Rebuttal Arguments | |
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Understand how rebuttal arguments work | |
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Recognize the tactics of rebuttal arguments | |
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Build a rebuttal argument | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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Crossing the Line | |
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Illegal Immigrants-They're Money | |
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Steps to writing a rebuttal argument | |
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Proposal Arguments | |
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Understand how proposal arguments work | |
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Recognize components of proposal arguments | |
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Build a proposal argument | |
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Finding good reasons | |
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Coal in a Nice Shade of Green | |
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Let's Make It a Real Melting Pot with Presidential Hopes for All | |
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Steps to writing a proposal argument | |
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Designing And Presenting Arguments | |
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Designing Arguments | |
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Start with your readers | |
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Know when to use images and graphics | |
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Compose and edit images | |
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Create tables, charts, and graphs | |
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Design pages for print | |
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Design pages for the Web | |
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Presenting Arguments | |
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Plan a presentation | |
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Design effective visuals | |
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Give a memorable presentation | |
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Researching Arguments | |
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Planning Research | |
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Analyze the research task | |
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Find a subject | |
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Ask a research question | |
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Gather information about the subject | |
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Draft a working thesis | |
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Finding Sources | |
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Search with keywords | |
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Find books | |
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Find journal articles | |
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Find Web sources | |
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Evaluating and Recording Sources | |
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Evaluate print sources | |
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Find information to cite print sources | |
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Evaluate database sources | |
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Find information to cite a database source | |
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Evaluate Web sources | |
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Find information to cite a Web source | |
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Writing the Research Paper | |
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Review your goals and thesis | |
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Determine your contribution | |
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Determine your main points | |
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Avoid plagiarism | |
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Quote sources without plagiarizing | |
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Summarize and paraphrase sources without plagiarizing | |
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Incorporate quotations | |
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Incorporate visuals | |
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Documenting Sources in MLA Style | |
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Elements of MLA documentation | |
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MLA in-text citations | |
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MLA works-cited list: Books | |
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MLA works-cited list: Periodicals | |
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MLA works-cited list: Library database sources | |
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MLA works-cited list: Other online sources | |
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MLA works-cited list: Other sources | |
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Brian Witkowski (student), Need a Cure for Tribe Fever? How about a Dip in the Lake? | |
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Documenting Sources in APA Style | |
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Elements of APA documentation | |
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In-text citations in APA style | |
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APA references list: Books | |
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APA references list: Library database sources | |
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APA references list: Periodicals | |
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APA references list: Other online sources | |
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APA references list: Other sources | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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Negotiating the Environment | |
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American Environmentalism | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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The Conservation Ethic | |
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Sidebar: Aldo Leopold, From The Land Ethic | |
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The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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How Race Affected the Federal Government's Response to Katrina | |
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Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front | |
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Issue in Focus: Climate Change | |
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What is Global Warming? | |
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Ten Things to Do to Help Stop Global Warming | |
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Christopher C Horner, Top Ten 'Global-Warming' Myths | |
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Environment: Healthy Swamps | |
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And Looking At Our Extended Forecast . . . (cartoon) | |
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Burning at the Stake | |
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Buying into the Green Movement | |
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Fast Clothes vs. Green Clothes (editorial) | |
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Environmentally Unfriendly Trend: Fast Fashion | |
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Sidebar: How Green Is Your T-Shirt? | |
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From Reading to Writing | |
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Confronting Sexual Difference | |
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Sexual Difference in American Culture | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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Appearances | |
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Homophobic? Read Your Bible | |
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Struggling Alone | |
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Issue in Focus: Same Sex Marriage | |
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We're Here to Defend . . . (cartoon) | |
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House of Representatives, The Defense of Marriage Act | |
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Evan's Two Moms | |
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A New Tactic In Fighting Marriage Initiatives | |
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From Reading to Writing | |
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Subversion Through Perversion | |
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Coming Out in the Line of Fire | |
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Bad for Both Boys and Girls | |
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The End of Gay Culture | |
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Vanity, Thy Name is Metrosexual | |
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Globalization: Importing and Exporting America | |
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America's Place in the World | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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The Bad News Is . . . (cartoon) | |
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No Human Being is Illegal | |
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Beware of Illegal Aliens Seeking Hazmat Licenses | |
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Sidebar, Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus | |
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Sidebar, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Unguarded Gates | |
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Immigration Maze | |
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What's the Worst That Can Happen . . . ? (cartoon) | |
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Under the Sign of Mickey Mouse & Co | |
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Living The Dream | |
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Wal-Mart vs. Pyramids | |
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In Search of Intercultural Competence | |
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Science and Ethics | |
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The Ethics of Science and Technology | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us | |
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A Tale of Two Dystopias | |
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Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future | |
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Beautiful, Functional and Frugal | |
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A Robot in Every Home | |
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Attitude Screen | |
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Issue in Focus: Stem Cell Research | |
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Speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention | |
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The Ronald Reagan Eulogy Will Be Delivered . . . (cartoon) | |
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Ron Reagan: Wrong on Stem Cells | |
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Don't Clone Ron Reagan's Agenda | |
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From Reading to Writing | |
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Privacy | |
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New Challenges to Personal Privacy | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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Three Cheers for the Surveillance Society! | |
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Take my Privacy, Please! | |
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It's Part of the Government's New Emphasis . . . (cartoon) | |
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Traveler's Card Might Just Pave the Way for a National ID Card | |
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Counselors Walk a Fine Line Weighing Rights of Student and College | |
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The End of Youthful Indiscretions: Internet Makes Them Permanent Blots | |
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Issue in Focus: Biometrics and Measuring the Body for Identity | |
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Privacy Implications of Biometrics | |
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A Trail of DNA and Data | |
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Emerging Biometric Technologies | |
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Sidebar: Voice Verification for Transations | |
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Will Cash & Credit Cards Become Extinct in the Not-So-Distant Future? | |
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From Reading to Writing | |
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Regulating Substances/Regulating Bodies | |
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Private Bodies, Public Controls | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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The Right Drug to Target: Cutting Marijuana Use | |
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Eric Schlosser, Make Peace with Pot | |
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Issue in Focus: Regulating Tobacco | |
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Camel Lights Ad | |
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American Legacy Foundation, Antismoking Ad | |
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Doonesbury: The Sin Lobby Gins Up . . (cartoon) | |
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The Necessity of Global Tobacco Regulations | |
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Nazi Tactics | |
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From Reading to Writing | |
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What's This? (cartoon) | |
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Drugstore Athlete | |
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Citizenship and Disability | |
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New Yorker | |
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Cover | |
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Please Save Us! | |
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Those Extra Pounds-Are They Government's Business? | |
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A Secret Society of the Starving | |
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Consumer Freedom, Obesity Ads | |
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Modified | |
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The Subtext of All Tattoos (cartoon) | |
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Like Father Like Son Ad | |
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A Rare Kind of Rush: A Sorority Based on Islamic Principles | |
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New Media | |
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Personal Space in Cyberspace | |
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Contemporary Arguments | |
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Is Google's Data Grinder Dangerous? | |
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A False Wikipedia "Biography" | |
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Sidebar: John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | |
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Information Superhighway (cartoon) | |
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Where the Avatars Roam | |
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Alternate Universe | |
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Sidebar: Joe Duffy and Andrew Keen, Can Anyone Be a Designer? | |
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Putting on Lip Gloss, and a Show, for YouTube Viewers | |
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Facebook's 'Privacy Trainwreck': Exposure, Invasion, and Drama (blog) | |
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Getting off the Couch | |
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Appendix: A Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Glossary | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |