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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 | |