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Introduction
Section One: DESIGNING COMPOSITIONS RHETORICALLY
1. A Rhetorical Process for Composing
The background to our story
What we learned: Seeing the piece
Putting the pieces together
Rhetoric and argument
Rhetoric, argument, and advocacy
Rhetoric and persuasion: Thinking about how text work on us
Thinking through production
2. Composing a Statement of Purpose
Working toward a statement of purpose
Purpose
Audience
Content
Statement of purpose
Renee's statement of purpose
Thinking through production
3. Composing a Design Plan
Working toward a design plan
Strategies
Medium
Arrangement
Renee's design plan and letter
Testing
Thinking through production
Section Two: RESEARCHING TO SUPPORT COMPOSING
4. Researching for Advocacy and Argument
Research, argument, and advocacy
A rhetorical research process
What is a source?
Step 1: Find a topic
Step 2: Narrow your topic through initial research
Step 3: Develop questions to guide your research
Step 4: Use your questions to help you find sources
Step 5: Engage with your sources
An annotated bibliography
Step 6: Divide on your argument
Step 7: Evaluate your sources
Thinking through production
Alternative research projects
5. About Written Modes of Communication
The pleasures and connections of writing
Writing's purposes, audiences, and contexts
Ethos, logos, and pathos as writing strategies
A design plan for writing
A first draft of a research paper
Giving feedback to others' writing
Receiving feedback to your writing
A revision plan
The written strategies of proofreading, editing, and revising
A short example of revision
A revised research paper
Testing and evaluating writing
Thinking through production
6. About Oral Modes of Communication
Pleasures of speaking
And responsibilities of speaking
On listening
Speaking's purposes, audiences, and contexts
A statement of purpose for speaking
Ethos, logos, and pathos as speaking strategies
Preparing (yourself) to talk
A checklist for a design plan for a talk
A design plan
An oral presentation
Testing and evaluating oral presentations
Ethical contexts of speaking--and listening
Interviewing
Thinking through production
7. About Visual Modes of Communication
The pleasures--and complexities--of visual communication
Visible purposes, audiences, and contexts
A statement of purpose for a photo essay
Visible ethos, logos, and pathos
Analyzing visual arguments
A design plan for a photo essay
A photo essay
Testing and evaluating visual texts
Designing slides to support oral presentations
Thinking through production
8. About Advocacy and Argument
Becoming an advocate
Situating yourself to advocate
Advocacy is rhetorical
Research and advocacy
Who changes and who benefits when you advocate?
Being an advocate, being a citizen, and being a critic: "The Partly Cloudy Patriot"
Grounds for advocacy--and for living: "The False Idle of Unfettered Capitalism"
Thinking through production
Section Three: ANALYZING THE ARGUMENTS OF OTHERS
9. Doing Rhetorical Analysis of Others' Texts
Analyzing others' texts
A comparison: Analyzing communication situtations and analyzing others' texts
Steps for rhetorical analysis
Applying the steps to a webpage
Applying the steps to a different webpage
Writing a rhetorical analysis
Reading and responding rhetorically: A written alaysis of one text , a website
Reading and responding rhetorically
How chapters 10-14 help you with rhetorical analysis
Thinking through production
10. Analyzing Posters
How posters work
Movie posters from the United States
Wartime posters from teh United States and elsewhere
How posters work: Bodies and culture
Thinking through production
11. Analyzing Documentary Photography
How photographs work
A photographic essay
Reading and responding rhetorically: A written analysis of a photographic essay
A photographic essays: excerpt from "American Muslim Students"
A photographic essays: photographs from A Civil Rights Memorial
Thinking through production
12. Analyzing Opinion Pieces and Editorials
How editorial and opinion pieces work
The contexts of opinion pieces and editorials
A short editorial on a controversial topic
Reading and responding rhetorically
Opinion: "Separating fact from fiction in video game debate"
Reading and responding rhetorically
A checklist for ethos
Editorial: "Violence vs. sex"
Opinion: "Games People Play"
Editorial: " Violence: Video Games and What We're Not Playing"
Reading andn responding rhetorically
Critical thinking: Evaluating the logos of editorial and opnion pieces
Evaluating logos of an editorial: "Court majority was right"
Thinking through production
13. Analyzing Essays
How essays work
“The Periodic Table"
A rhetorical analysis of "The Periodc Table"
Reading and responding rhetorically
Preparing to read the essay "Higher Education"
Looking back at "Higher Education": What we noticed--and why
Preparing to read the essay "The Smallest Woman in the World"
“The Plaintiff Speaks"
Preparing to read the essay "What Does It Mean to Be Cool"
Thinking through production
14. Analyzing Comics
How comics work
Single frame comic: The Yellow Kid
A comic's panels
"Common Scents"
Preparing to read "Little House in the Big City
Thinking through production
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