Part I: INVENTION. 1. Inventing Ideas. Introduction. Asking Questions. Re-Inventing Education. Reading for Rhetoric. How To Use The Composition Of Everyday Life. Inventing Ideas Assignment. 2. Remembering Who You Were. Readings. Selling Manure, Bonnie Jo Campbell. How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant, Cindy Bosley. The Thrill of Victory . . . The Agony of Parents, Jennifer Schwind-Pawlak [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 3. Explaining Relationships. Readings. Americans and the Land, John Steinbeck. Mugged, Jim Crockett. Tinder, You, and Me, Kellie Coppola. [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 4. Observing. Readings. Living Like Weasels, Annie Dillard. The Front Porch, Chester McCovey. Red Raiders Fans, Taylor Perry. [Student essay.] Invention. Point of Contact. Observing a Culture: Writing an Ethnography Essay. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 5. Analyzing Concepts. Readings. Why 'Natural' Doesn't Mean Anything Anymore, Michael Pollan. Black Like I Thought I Was, Erin Aubrey Kaplan. The Real, The Bad, and The Ugly, Cassie Heidecker [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 6. Analyzing Texts. Readings. The Weight of Sanity: A Sample Analysis of Ann Marie Paulin. The Default Setting: An Analysis of David Foster Wallace, Adrienne Carr. Politics and Audience: The New York Times' Appeal to Voters in 2016. Alison Block. [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Caution: Four Common Pitfalls. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 7. Analyzing Images. Readings. Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream, Elizabeth Thoman. An Imperfect Reality, Rebecca Hollingsworth. Look on My Works: Breaking Bad's Final Season Trailer, Nick Fendinger. [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay. 8. Making Arguments. Readings. The Dog Delusion, April Pedersen. Cruelty, Civility, and Other Weighty Matters, Ann Marie Paulin. Hive Talkin': The Buzz Around Town about Bees, Teresa Scollon. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: The Open Letter. 9. Responding to Arguments. Readings. Entitlement Education, Daniel Bruno. 'Have It Your Way': Consumerism Invades Education, Simon Benlow. The Power of Failure: J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech, Liz Winhover. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Tattoo Design. 10. Evaluating. Readings. Talibanned, Benjamin Busch. Important and Flawed, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before, Jaren Provo. [Student essay.] Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Classroom Evaluations. 11. Searching for Causes. Readings. Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr. Why We Binge-Watch Television, Kevin Fallon. Why Millennials Are Weak, Quinn Greenwell. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Photo Essay. 12. Proposing Solutions. Readings. Hi, I'm a Digital Junkie and I Suffer from Infomania, Manoush Zomorodi. Your Kids Bored at School? Tell Them to Get Over It, Laura Hanby Hudgens. Different Jobs, Dana Stewart. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Comic Strips and Other Media. 13. Thinking Radically: Re-Seeing the World. Readings. Celibate Passion, Kathleen Norris. Build the Wall, Ed Bell. Unemployed, and Working Hard, Simon Wykoff [Student essay]. Invention. Point of Contact. Analysis. Public Resonance. Thesis. Rhetorical Tools. Revision. Reflection. Beyond the Essay: Visual Essay / Collage / Poster. Part II: RESEARCH. 14. Finding Sources. Using Catalogs and Databases. Online Catalogs. Periodical Databases. Conducting Interviews. Planning an Interview. Asking the Right Questions. Integrating Interviews into Your Writing. Creating Surveys. Generating Questions. Choosing Respondents. Recording and Using Responses. 15. Analyzing, Synthesizing, and Evaluating Sources. Developing Critical Literacy. Just the Facts, Please-or Maybe Not. Numbers Don't Lie-or Do They? Summarizing and Analyzing Sources. Content. Context. Understanding Common Source Genres. Synthesizing Sources. Assignment: Summarizing, Analyzing, and Synthesizing Sources. Sample Synthesis: Exploring Caffeine Views, by Jim Crockett. Evaluating Sources. Relevance. Reliability. Credibility. Timeliness. Diversity. Evaluating Online Sources. Assignment: Evaluating a Source. Sample Source Evaluation. 16. Integrating and Documenting Sources. Basic Concepts. Issues to Consider and Discuss. Why Get Information from Sources? When to Get Information from Sources. What Is Inventive Research? Where to Get Information from Sources. What Is Plagiarism? Why Document Sources? What's a Good Research Topic? Formal versus Informal Documentation. Integrating Ideas from Sources. Summary. Quotation. Special Conditions in Quoting. Organizing Sources. Blending in the Source Information. Documenting Sources. MLA Style. In-Text Citation. Works Cited. Sample Research Essay. APA Style. In-Text Citation. References. Sample Research Essay. Part III: ORGANIZATION AND DELIVERY. 17. Organizing Ideas. Beginning. Changing Paragraphs. Integrating Outside Sources. Counterarguing. Separating Problems and Solutions. Concluding. 18. Developing Voice. Establishing Presence. Building Credibility. Following Conventions. 19. Vitalizing Sentences. Controlling the Pace. Getting Specific. Cleaning the Language. Experimenting with Patterns.
