RHETORICAL CONTENTS

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(Essays listed in order of appearance; * indicates student essays.)

Analyzing a Subject

*Olof Eriksson The Problems with Masculinity

*Alley Julseth Analyzing “The New Literacy”

Michael Shermer The Science of Righteousness

Emily Badger It’s Time to Stop Blaming Poverty on the Decline in Marriage

*Marjorie Lee Garretson More Pros Than Cons in a Meat-Free Life

Charles M. Blow Black Dads Are Doing Best of All

*Abigail Marchand The Family Dynamic

Celebrity Culture [Text, Audio, and Video], LaunchPad

*Jonathan Burns The Hidden Truth: An Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Frank Deford Mind Games: Football and Head Injuries [Audio], LaunchPad

*Samantha Christopher Adolescents Are Not Yet Adults

Chris Bentley Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?

Michael Cobb The Marriage Imperative

Brent Staples Black Men and Public Space

Robert Jensen The High Cost of Manliness

Julie Zeilinger Guys Suffer from Oppressive Gender Roles Too

Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin America’s War on the Overweight

Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies

Elizabeth Stone Grief in the Age of Facebook

Libby Copeland Is Facebook Making Us Sad?

Clive Thompson The New Literacy

Jenny Jarvie Trigger Happy

William Zinsser The Right to Fail

Analyzing Processes

Michael Shermer The Science of Righteousness

Wilbert Rideau Why Prisons Don’t Work

Casey Neistat Texting While Walking [Video], LaunchPad

Aziz Ansari Searching for Your Soul Mate

Adam Sternbergh Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji

Elizabeth Stone Grief in the Age of Facebook

Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language

Analyzing Visuals

Multiple Photographers Observing the Titanic: Past and Present [Visual Essay], LaunchPad

Tiana Chavez ASU Athletes Discuss Superstitions [Video], LaunchPad

National Geographic Editors Hurricane Katrina Pictures: Then & Now, Ruin & Rebirth [Visual Essay], LaunchPad

Brian Hurst How Your Aggressive Driving Negatively Impacts the Environment [Infographic], LaunchPad

UNICEF Editors Dirty Water Campaign [Video], LaunchPad

Casey Neistat Texting While Walking [Video], LaunchPad

Scott Tobias The Hunger Games

Consumer Reports Web Editors Best Vanilla Ice Cream [Video], LaunchPad

*Shannon Kintner Charlie Living with Autism [Student Visual Essay], LaunchPad

Adam Sternbergh Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji

Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies

Arguing

National Geographic Editors Hurricane Katrina Pictures: Then & Now, Ruin & Rebirth [Visual Essay], LaunchPad

Emily Badger It’s Time to Stop Blaming Poverty on the Decline in Marriage

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Brian Hurst How Your Aggressive Driving Negatively Impacts the Environment [Infographic], LaunchPad

Suzan Shown Harjo Last Rites for Indian Dead

*Marjorie Lee Garretson More Pros Than Cons in a Meat-Free Life

UNICEF Editors Dirty Water Campaign [Video], LaunchPad

Wilbert Rideau Why Prisons Don’t Work

*Lacey Taylor It’s Not Just a Bike

Casey Neistat Texting While Walking [Video], LaunchPad

*Elizabeth Erion Internship Program Falls Short

*Abigail Marchand The Family Dynamic

Celebrity Culture [Text, Audio, and Video], LaunchPad

Frank Deford Mind Games: Football and Head Injuries [Audio], LaunchPad

*Samantha Christopher Adolescents Are Not Yet Adults

Judy Brady I Want a Wife

Julie Zeilinger Guys Suffer from Oppressive Gender Roles Too

Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin America’s War on the Overweight

Clive Thompson The New Literacy

Ann Friedman Can We Just, Like, Get Over the Way Women Talk?

Jenny Jarvie Trigger Happy

William Deresiewicz What Is College For?

Sarah Adams Be Cool to the Pizza Dude

Comparing and Contrasting

Michael Shermer The Science of Righteousness

Multiple Photographers Observing the Titanic: Past and Present [Visual Essay], LaunchPad

César Vargas How First- and Second-Generation Hispanics Can Help Each Other

*Jacob Griffin Karate Kid vs. Kung Fu Panda: A Race to the Olympics

National Geographic Editors Hurricane Katrina Pictures: Then & Now, Ruin & Rebirth [Visual Essay], LaunchPad

Scott Tobias The Hunger Games

Charles M. Blow Black Dads Are Doing Best of All

*Samantha Christopher Adolescents Are Not Yet Adults

Chris Bentley Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?

Michael Cobb The Marriage Imperative

Aziz Ansari Searching for Your Soul Mate

Julie Zeilinger Guys Suffer from Oppressive Gender Roles Too

Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language

David Brooks The Humility Code

Defining

*Olof Eriksson The Problems with Masculinity

Michael Shermer The Science of Righteousness

*Robert G. Schreiner What Is a Hunter?

Brian Hurst How Your Aggressive Driving Negatively Impacts the Environment [Infographic], LaunchPad

Judy Brady I Want a Wife

Robert Jensen The High Cost of Manliness

Clive Thompson The New Literacy

Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language

William Zinsser The Right to Fail

William Deresiewicz What Is College For?

Describing

Russell Baker The Art of Eating Spaghetti

*Robert G. Schreiner What Is a Hunter?

Howie Chackowicz The Game Ain’t Over ’til the Fatso Man Sings [Audio], LaunchPad

Ashley Smith Smokejumper Training

*Alea Eyre Stockholm

*Jacob Griffin Karate Kid vs. Kung Fu Panda: A Race to the Olympics

*Erin Schmitt Mr. Hertli

Judith Ortiz Cofer More Room

Dividing and Classifying

Michael Shermer The Science of Righteousness

Robert Jensen The High Cost of Manliness

Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language

Miya Tokumitsu In the Name of Love

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Evaluating and Reviewing

*Alley Julseth Analyzing “The New Literacy”

Michael Shermer The Science of Righteousness

Scott Tobias The Hunger Games

*Elizabeth Erion Internship Program Falls Short

Consumer Reports Web Editors Best Vanilla Ice Cream [Video], LaunchPad

*Samantha Christopher Adolescents Are Not Yet Adults

Cindi May The Problem with Female Superheroes

Robert Jensen The High Cost of Manliness

Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies

Explaining Causes and Effects

Michael Shermer The Science of Righteousness

César Vargas How First- and Second-Generation Hispanics Can Help Each Other

Emily Badger It’s Time to Stop Blaming Poverty on the Decline in Marriage

*Yun Yung Choi Invisible Women

Brian Hurst How Your Aggressive Driving Negatively Impacts the Environment [Infographic], LaunchPad

Charles M. Blow Black Dads Are Doing Best of All

Celebrity Culture [Text, Audio, and Video], LaunchPad

Frank Deford Mind Games: Football and Head Injuries [Audio], LaunchPad

Chris Bentley Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?

Aziz Ansari Searching for Your Soul Mate

Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies

Libby Copeland Is Facebook Making Us Sad?

Ann Friedman Can We Just, Like, Get Over the Way Women Talk?

Amy Tan Mother Tongue

Giving Examples

Howie Chackowicz The Game Ain’t Over ’til the Fatso Man Sings [Audio], LaunchPad

Tiana Chavez ASU Athletes Discuss Superstitions [Video], LaunchPad

César Vargas How First- and Second-Generation Hispanics Can Help Each Other

*Marjorie Lee Garretson More Pros Than Cons in a Meat-Free Life

*Elizabeth Erion Internship Program Falls Short

Consumer Reports Web Editors Best Vanilla Ice Cream [Video], LaunchPad

*Jonathan Burns The Hidden Truth: An Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Frank Deford Mind Games: Football and Head Injuries [Audio], LaunchPad

Cindi May The Problem with Female Superheroes

Robert Jensen The High Cost of Manliness

Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin America’s War on the Overweight

Elizabeth Stone Grief in the Age of Facebook

Ann Friedman Can We Just, Like, Get Over the Way Women Talk?

Jenny Jarvie Trigger Happy

William Zinsser The Right to Fail

Sarah Adams Be Cool to the Pizza Dude

Interviewing a Subject

Jon Ronson How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

*Lorena A. Ryan-Hines Looking Backwards, Moving Forward

Tiana Chavez ASU Athletes Discuss Superstitions [Video], LaunchPad

Chris Bentley Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?

Aziz Ansari Searching for Your Soul Mate

Elizabeth Stone Grief in the Age of Facebook

Ann Friedman Can We Just, Like, Get Over the Way Women Talk?

Amy Tan Mother Tongue

Observing a Scene

Ashley Smith Smokejumper Training

*Alea Eyre Stockholm

Multiple Photographers Observing the Titanic: Past and Present [Visual Essay], LaunchPad

*Shannon Kintner Charlie Living with Autism [Student Visual Essay], LaunchPad

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Judith Ortiz Cofer More Room

Miya Tokumitsu In the Name of Love

Proposing a Solution

César Vargas How First- and Second-Generation Hispanics Can Help Each Other

Emily Badger It’s Time to Stop Blaming Poverty on the Decline in Marriage

Wilbert Rideau Why Prisons Don’t Work

*Lacey Taylor It’s Not Just a Bike

Casey Neistat Texting While Walking [Video], LaunchPad

Frank Deford Mind Games: Football and Head Injuries [Audio], LaunchPad

David Brooks The Humility Code

Recalling an Experience

Russell Baker The Art of Eating Spaghetti

*Robert G. Schreiner What Is a Hunter?

Howie Chackowicz The Game Ain’t Over ’til the Fatso Man Sings [Audio], LaunchPad

*Alea Eyre Stockholm

*Erin Schmitt Mr. Hertli

Judith Ortiz Cofer More Room

Chris Bentley Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?

Elizabeth Stone Grief in the Age of Facebook

Richard Rodriguez Public and Private Language

Amy Tan Mother Tongue

Supporting a Position with Sources

Emily Badger It’s Time to Stop Blaming Poverty on the Decline in Marriage

*Yun Yung Choi Invisible Women

Brian Hurst How Your Aggressive Driving Negatively Impacts the Environment [Infographic], LaunchPad

Suzan Shown Harjo Last Rites for Indian Dead

Charles M. Blow Black Dads Are Doing Best of All

*Abigail Marchand The Family Dynamic

Celebrity Culture [Text, Audio, and Video], LaunchPad

*Jonathan Burns The Hidden Truth: An Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Frank Deford Mind Games: Football and Head Injuries [Audio], LaunchPad

*Samantha Christopher Adolescents Are Not Yet Adults

Chris Bentley Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?

Cindi May The Problem with Female Superheroes

Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin America’s War on the Overweight

Clive Thompson The New Literacy

Ann Friedman Can We Just, Like, Get Over the Way Women Talk?

*Jenny Lidington Sex Offender Lists: A Never-Ending Punishment

Taking a Stand

César Vargas How First- and Second-Generation Hispanics Can Help Each Other

Suzan Shown Harjo Last Rites for Indian Dead

*Marjorie Lee Garretson More Pros Than Cons in a Meat-Free Life

UNICEF Editors Dirty Water Campaign [Video], LaunchPad

Casey Neistat Texting While Walking [Video], LaunchPad

*Elizabeth Erion Internship Program Falls Short

Michael Cobb The Marriage Imperative

Cindi May The Problem with Female Superheroes

Julie Zeilinger Guys Suffer from Oppressive Gender Roles Too

Ann Friedman Can We Just, Like, Get Over the Way Women Talk?

*Jenny Lidington Sex Offender Lists: A Never-Ending Punishment

Jenny Jarvie Trigger Happy

William Deresiewicz What Is College For?

Sarah Adams Be Cool to the Pizza Dude

David Brooks The Humility Code

Miya Tokumitsu In the Name of Love