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| Analysis and Argument | |
| Analyzing Texts | |
| Understanding Texts Rhetorically | |
| Understanding Rhetoric | |
| Analyzing Texts Rhetorically | |
| Strategies for Analyzing Persuasive Texts | |
| Reading: Samuel P. Huntington, "Under God" | |
| Reading: Doug Marlette, "I Was a Tool of Satan" | |
| Writing a Rhetorical Analysis | |
| Student Writing: Jason Benhaim, "Tapping into the American Psyche" | |
| Turning to Texts of Your Choice | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Understanding Strategies of Persuasion | |
| Analyzing Ads as Arguments | |
| Reading: Seth Stevenson, "You and Your Shadow" | |
| Understanding the Rhetorical Appeals | |
| Considering Context | |
| Using Strategies of Persuasion | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Composing Arguments | |
| Understanding the Canons of Rhetoric | |
| Invention in Argument | |
| Arrangement in Argument | |
| Style in Argument | |
| Crafting a Position Paper | |
| Student Writing: Angela Rastegar, Position papers | |
| Writing Multiple Sides of an Argument | |
| Synthesizing Multiple Perspectives | |
| Reading: Nora Ephron, "The Boston Photographs" | |
| Constructing Your Own Argument | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Research Arguments | |
| Planning and Proposing Research Arguments | |
| Asking Research Questions | |
| Student Writing: Felicia Cote, Research log (excerpt) | |
| Generating Topics | |
| Bringing your Topic into Focus | |
| Planning your Research through Writing | |
| Student Writing: Bries Deerrose, Research freewrite | |
| Drafting a Research Proposal | |
| Student Writing: Susan Zhang, "Little Photoshop of Horrors?" | |
| Student Writing: Tommy Tsai, Research Proposal (excerpts) | |
| Student Writing: Tommy Tsai, Reflection Letter (excerpt) | |
| Planning Your Own Research Project | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Finding and Evaluating Research Sources | |
| Visualizing Research | |
| Developing Search Terms | |
| Primary and Secondary Sources | |
| Evaluating Your Sources | |
| Student Writing: Sean Bruich, Field research inquiry letter | |
| Creating a Dialogue with Your Sources | |
| Student Writing: Amanda Johnson, Dialogue of sources (excerpt) | |
| Note Taking and Annotated Bibliographies | |
| Student Writing: Carly Geehr, Visual annotated bibliography | |
| Implementing Your Research Skills | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Organizing and Writing Research Arguments | |
| Organizing Your Draft in Visual Form | |
| Learning Outline Strategies | |
| Student Writing: Lee-Ming Zen, Outline: "Finding the Woman Who Never Was" | |
| Outlines with Subheads and Transitions | |
| Student Writing: Dexian Cai, Research paper outline | |
| Spotlight on Your Argument | |
| Working with Sources | |
| Drafting Your Research Argument | |
| Student Writing: Sunthar Premakumar, Draft: "Bollywood Sing-Along" | |
| Revising Your Draft | |
| Student Writing: Sunthar Premakumar, "Bollywood Sing-Along" | |
| Focusing on Your Project | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Design, Delivery, and Documentation | |
| Designing Arguments | |
| Understanding Document Design and Decorum | |
| Understanding Academic Writing Conventions | |
| Student Writing: Allison Woo, "Slaying the Dragon" (excerpt) | |
| Tools of Design for Academic Audiences | |
| Student Writing: David Pinner, Research abstract | |
| Student Writing: Molly Cunningham, Research bio | |
| Student Writing: David Pinner, Research bio | |
| Combining Visual and Verbal Design Elements | |
| Student Writing: Ashley Mullen, Newsletter | |
| Student Writing: Gene Ma and Chris Couvelier, Nonprofit Website (excerpts) | |
| Reading: Greenpeace, "What's Wrong with the Body Shop?" | |
| Designing Visual Arguments | |
| Student Writing: Carrie Tsosie, "Alternative Energy for Whom?" | |
| Student Writing: Ye Yuan, "Looking through the Lens" | |
| Student Writing: Sarah Douglas, Website (excerpt) | |
| Student Writing: Yang Shi, Photo montage | |
| Designing Your Own Arguments | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Delivering Presentations | |
| Understanding the Branches of Oratory | |
| Audience, Purpose, and Persona | |
| Transforming Research into a Presentation | |
| Student Writing: Tommy Tsai, Presentation outline | |
| Student Writing: Susan Zhang, Presentation script | |
| Considering Strategies of Design | |
| Using Visuals Rhetorically | |
| Student Writing: Tanja Haj-Hassan, Carlos Ortiz, and Jonathan Hwang, Research posters | |
| Student Writing: Natalie Farrell, Tracy Hadnott, Sarah Trube, Morgan Springer, and Kavi Vyas, Presentation slides | |
| Choosing Methods of Delivery | |
| Practicing Your Presentation | |
| Prewriting Checklist | |
| Documentation and Plagiarism | |
| Rhetorical Imitation and Intellectual Property | |
| Understanding Plagiarism | |
| Student Writing: Michael Rothenberg, Research log (excerpt) | |
| Reading: Doris Kearns Goodwin, "How I Caused That Story" | |
| Understanding Documentation Style | |
| MLA-Style Works Cited Lists | |
| Student Writing: Sunthar Premakumar, Works Cited and Consulted List | |
| Student Writing: Dexian Cai, Works Cited | |
| Student Paper in MLA Style | |
| Student Writing: Tanner Gardner, "Show Me the Money! The Globalization of the NBA" | |
| Documentation for Your Paper | |
| Readings | |
| Marked Bodies | |
| Imagining the Ideal Body | |
| "Fat Is an Advertising Issue" | |
| "What If Barbie Was an Actual Person?" | |
| "A Secret Society of the Starving" | |
| National Eating Disorder Association, "Get Real" | |
| "Distorted Images: Western Cultures Are Exporting Their Dangerous Obsession with Thinness" | |
| "The Insult That Made a Man Out of 'Mac'" | |
| "Evolving Ideals of Male Body Image as Seen through Action Toys" | |
| "G.I. Joe's Big Biceps Are Not a Big Deal" | |
| National Public Radio, "Cultural Differences Seen in Male Perceptions of Body Image" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Fashion Statements | |
| "'Not Just for Bikers Anymore': Popular Representations of American Tattooing" | |
| PETA, "Think Ink, Not Mink" | |
| "Tattooed" | |
| "Tattooing Their Grief" | |
| "Rebellious Silence" | |
| "The Veil" | |
| "Wearing Their Beliefs on Their Chests" | |
| Mary Is My Homegirl T-shirt | |
| "Faith and Fashion" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Sports and Media | |
| Engineering a Better Athlete | |
| "Clean Up Hitters: The Steroid Wars and the Nature of What's Natural" | |
| "Olympian Talent, and a Little Artificial Help: A Conversation with Thomas H. Murray" | |
| CBS News Interactive, "Chart: Olympic Drug Testing" | |
| "Drug in Sport: The Shape to Come" | |
| "Ready, Set, Mutate!" | |
| Speedo, Fastskin Advertisement | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Global Sports and National Identity | |
| "Olympics in an Age of Global Broadcasting" | |
| "Ode to Maradona: Falklands' | |
| Revenge" | |
| Courtney Angela Brkic, "Group Therapy: A Nation Is Born" | |
| Gideon Mendal and Themba Hadebe, "Heads-up Move" | |
| "Yo Yao! What Does the 'Ming Dynasty' | |
| Tell Us about Race and Transnational Diplomacy in the NBA?" | |
| The Year of the Yao | |
| "Who's the Man? Sammy Sosa, Latinos, and Televisual Redefinitions of the 'American' | |
| Pastime" | |
| "Power Pack" | |
| Major League Baseball, "Rising Sons" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Playing Against Stereotypes | |
| "The New Minstrel Show: Black Vaudeville with Statistics" | |
| "'Doin' | |
| Me'" | |
| Media Education Foundation, Playing Unfair | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Copyright and Creativity | |
| Copyright Matters | |
| Jennifer Jenkins, from Bound by Law? | |
| "Who Will Own Your Next Great Idea?" | |
| "Free Culture" | |
| "Licenses Explained" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Who Owns Popular Culture? | |
| "Copying Isn't Cool" | |
| "File Sharing Must Be Made Legal" | |
| Pritchett, editorial cartoons | |
| "It's All Free! Music! Movies! TV Shows!" | |
| Motion Picture Association of America, "You Can Click, But You Can't Hide" | |
| "Address Before Members of the United States Congress" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Remixing Culture | |
| Sasha Frere-Jones, "The New Math of Mashups" | |
| Cover for The Grey Album | |
| John Healey and Richard Cromelin, "When Copyright Law Meets the 'Mash-up'" | |
| "Food Chain Barbie" | |
| "Hijacking Harry Potter, Quidditch Broom and All" | |
| Panic Struck Productions, Revelations | |
| "The Privatization of Our Culture" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Gaming Culture | |
| Gender Games | |
| "Game Makers Aren't Chasing Women" | |
| Sheri Graner Ray, "But What if the Player is Female?" | |
| Mattel, Inc, My Scene | |
| Online Game | |
| "Games for Girls" | |
| Female Avatars: Blood Rayne and Kurenai | |
| "Getting the Girl | |
| Misconceptions, and Misdemeanors of Females in Games" | |
| "About Us" | |
| "Game Over" | |
| "Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo?" | |
| "Writing a 'Girls in Gaming' | |
| Article" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Violence and Videogames | |
| "Violent Media is Good for Kids" | |
| political cartoon | |
| Testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on the "Impact of Interactive Violence on Children" | |
| Anne-Marie Schleiner, "Velvet-Strike: War Times and Reality Games" | |
| Battlezone and Kuma/War game screens | |
| "The Making of an X Box Warrior" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Games with an Agenda | |
| "And Now, a Game from Our Sponsor" | |
| "Army to Potential Recruits: Wanna Play?" | |
| "Playing Games with a Conscience" | |
| "Ideological Videogames: Press Left Button to Dissent" | |
| Anne-Marie Schleiner, Velvet Strike Intervention Recipes | |
| Anne-Marie Schleiner, Velvet Strike Sprays | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Picturing Experience | |
| Snapshots of the Ordinary | |
| "Don't Smile for the Camera" | |
| "America 24/7: A Family Photograph Album" | |
| Images from America 24/7 | |
| "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" | |
| "The Friendster of Photo Sites" | |
| "I Like to Watch: Video Blogging Is Ready for Its Close up" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Images of Crisis | |
| "No Picture Tells the Truth | |
| The Best Do Better Than That." | |
| Letter to the Public Editor, "Some Words About Those Pictures" | |
| "Tragedy in Oklahoma" | |
| "The Photo Felt around the World" | |
| "Did London Bombings Turn Citizen Journalists into Citizen Paparazzi?" | |
| Photographs from London Bombings | |
| "War, Live" | |
| "David Leeson Has Seen Hell" | |
| Photographs and Stories from Iraq | |
| The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, "Pros and Cons of Embedded Journalism" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Globalization | |
| McDonaldization | |
| "In 2,000 Years, Will the World Remember Disney or Plato?" | |
| The China Daily, "KFC and McDonald's: A Model of Blended Culture" | |
| "Corporations Leave Small Business Behind" | |
| "Globalization or McDonaldization?" | |
| One-Off Productions, Interview with George Ritzer | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| East Meets West | |
| "Gateways of India's Globalization" | |
| "Appropriating Bombay Cinema" | |
| "The Godzilla-Sized Appeal of Japan's Pop Culture" | |
| Images of Media Globalization | |
| Susan Jolliffe Napier, from "Why Anime?" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Outsourcing and Global Communities | |
| "How Outsourcing Will Save the World" | |
| "An Eye on India: Outsourcing Debate Continues" | |
| "It's a Flat World, After All" | |
| "Outsourcing the Friedman" | |
| "Think Locally, Act Globally" | |
| Perspectives on the Issue | |
| From Reading to Research | |
| Works Cited | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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