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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 | |