Chapter 1: An Introduction to Rhetoric
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The Rhetorical Situation
Occasion, Context, and Purpose
The Rhetorical Triangle
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SOAPS
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Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Ethos
Automatic Ethos
Building Ethos
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Logos
Conceding and Refuting
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Pathos
Images and Pathos
Humor and Pathos
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Combining Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
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Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Texts
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Determining Effective and Ineffective Rhetoric
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CULMINATING ACTIVITY
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
Chapter 2: Close Reading
Analyzing Style
A Model Analysis
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Talking with the Text
Asking Questions
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Annotating
Using a Graphic Organizer
From Close Reading to Analysis
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Writing a Close Analysis Essay
Developing a Thesis Statement
A Sample Close Analysis Essay
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Close Reading a Visual Text
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CULMINATING ACTIVITY
Glossary of Style Elements
Chapter 3: Analyzing Arguments
What Is Argument?
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ESSAY IN PROGRESS: Selecting a Topic
Staking a Claim
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Types of Claims
Claims of Fact
Claims of Value
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Claims of Policy
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ESSAY IN PROGRESS: Staking a Claim
From Claim to Thesis
Closed Thesis Statements
Open Thesis Statements
Counterargument Thesis Statements
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ESSAY IN PROGRESS: Developing a Thesis
Presenting Evidence
Relevant, Accurate, and Sufficient Evidence
Logical Fallacies
Fallacies of Relevance
Fallacies of Accuracy
Fallacies of Insufficiency
First-Hand Evidence
Personal Experience
Anecdotes
Current Events
Second-Hand Evidence
Historical Information
Expert Opinion
Quantitative Evidence
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ESSAY IN PROGRESS: Using Evidence
Shaping Argument
The Classical Oration
Induction and Deduction
Induction
Deduction
ESSAY IN PROGRESS: Shaping an Argument
Combining Induction and Deduction
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Using the Toulmin Model
Analyzing Assumptions
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From Reading to Writing
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Analyzing Visual Texts as Arguments
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ESSAY IN PROGRESS: Using Visual Evidence
CULMINATING ACTIVITY
ESSAY IN PROGRESS: First Draft
Glossary of Argument Terms and Fallacies
Chapter 4: Synthesizing Sources
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Using Sources to Inform an Argument
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Using Sources to Appeal to an Audience
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Conversation
1. from Millennials Rising
2. Community Service Mission Statement
3. Volunteering Opens Teen’s Eyes to Nursing
4. Study: “Resume Padding” Prevalent in College-Bound Students Who Volunteer
5. from The Effects of “Mandatory Volunteerism”on Intentions to Volunteer
6. from Youth Attitudes toward Civic Education and Community Service Requirements
Writing a Synthesis Essay
Identifying the Issues: Recognizing Complexity
Formulating Your Position
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Framing Quotations
Integrating Quotations
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Citing Sources
A Sample Synthesis Essay
Culminating Conversation
1. The Dumbest Generation
2. The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb
3. Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
4. Is Google Making Us Stupid?
5. Are We Getting Our Share of the Best?
6. Your Brain on Video Games
7. The New Literacy
8. Shelved
Chapter 5: Education
I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
from Education
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
A Talk to Teachers
Exploring the Text
School
Exploring the Text
Superman and Me
Exploring the Text
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Exploring the Text
Best in Class
Exploring the Text
This Is Water
Exploring the Text
Eleven
Exploring the Text
The Spirit of Education
Exploring the Text
What I Learned
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education
Questions
2. The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut
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3. Let Teenagers Try Adulthood
Questions
4. Two Scoreboards
Questions
5. Stop the Madness
Questions
6. from U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective
Questions
7. from Shanghai Schools’ Approach Pushes Students to Top of Tests
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
EXERCISE 5
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 6: Community
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
Aria
Exploring the Text
The Family That Stretches (Together)
Exploring the Text
Walking the Path between Worlds
Exploring the Text
Health and Happiness
Exploring the Text
Home at Last
Exploring the Text
Facebook Friendonomics
Exploring the Text
Small Change
Exploring the Text
Child of the Americas
Exploring the Text
Freedom from Want
Exploring the Text
The Last Thanksgiving
Exploring the Text
The Black Experience Is Everywhere
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. from The Gospel of Wealth
Questions
2. The Happy Life
Questions
3. from Lifeboat Ethics
Questions
4. from The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Questions
5. World Economic Forum
Questions
6. Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the Billionaire Challenge
Questions
7. Negative Reaction to Charity Campaign
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Draft
Questions
Revision
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
EXERCISE 5
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 7: The Economy
from Serving in Florida
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
A Modest Proposal
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
from The Roots of Honor
Exploring the Text
The Atlanta Exposition Address
Exploring the Text
On Dumpster Diving
Exploring the Text
from In the Strawberry Fields
Exploring the Text
What the Bagel Man Saw
Exploring the Text
The Case for Working with Your Hands
Exploring the Text
How to Restore the American Dream
Exploring the Text
To Be of Use
Exploring the Text
The Great GAPsby Society
Exploring the Text
This Modern World: A “Handy” Guide to the Housing Market
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. from Economy
Questions
2. from The Dependence Effect
Questions
3. Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today
Questions
4. Waste
Questions
5. The New Consumerism
Questions
6. Shop-happy
Questions
7. In Praise of Chain Stores
Questions
8. Forbes Price Index of Luxury Goods Keeps Pace with Inflation
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Draft
Questions
Revision
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 8: Gender
Women’s Brains
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
Professions for Women
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker
Exploring the Text
Letters
Exploring the Text
I Want a Wife
Exploring the Text
Just Walk on By
Exploring the Text
The Myth of the Latin Woman
Exploring the Text
There Is No Unmarked Woman
Exploring the Text
Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?
Exploring the Text
Barbie Doll
Exploring the Text
Chancellor Séguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. Marlboro Man
Questions
2. Being a Man
Questions
3. About Men
Questions
4. Putting Down the Gun
Questions
5. Why Johnny Won’t Read
Questions
6. Mind over Muscle
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 9: Sports
The Silent Season of a Hero
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
The Four Horsemen
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
The Proper Place for Sports
Exploring the Text
An Innocent at Rinkside
Exploring the Text
The Cruelest Sport
Exploring the Text
A Spectator’s Notebook
Exploring the Text
Barbaro, The Heart in the Winner’s Circle
Exploring the Text
Offensive Play
Exploring the Text
Why I Love My Job
Exploring the Text
The Great Game
Exploring the Text
Ex-Basketball Player
Exploring the Text
The Twelfth Player in Every Football Game
Exploring the Text
Yes!
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. “I’m Glad We Won . . .”
Questions
2. Pay Dirt: College Athletes Deserve the Same Rights as Other Students
Questions
3. Serfs of the Turf
Questions
4. My Priceless Opportunity
Questions
5. As Colleges’ Greed Grows, So Does the Hypocrisy
Questions
6. Despite Criticism, NCAA Takes a Firm Stance on Professionalism
Questions
7. Why Students Aren’t Paid to Play
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 10: Language
Mother Tongue
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
Politics and the English Language
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
Slang in America
Exploring the Text
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Exploring the Text
Always Living in Spanish
Exploring the Text
The “F Word”
Exploring the Text
In Plain English: Let’s Make It Official
Exploring the Text
Words Don’t Mean What They Mean
Exploring the Text
For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15
Exploring the Text
Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation
Exploring the Text
Language Use in the United States
Exploring the Text
The Effects of Bilingualism
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. How to Detect Propaganda
Questions
2. The Word Police
Questions
3. Nonviolent Language
Questions
4. NCAA Native American Mascots
Questions
5. The -Ism Schism: How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack?
Questions
6. The War of the Words: A Dispatch from the Front Lines
7. Letters to the Editor in Response to The War of the Words
Questions
8. from Words That Work
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 11: Popular Culture
Hip Hop Planet
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
Corn-Pone Opinions
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
from Show and Tell
Exploring the Text
High-School Confidential
Exploring the Text
An Image a Little Too Carefully Coordinated
Exploring the Text
Watching TV Makes You Smarter
Exploring the Text
Celebrity Bodies
Exploring the Text
My Zombie, Myself
Exploring the Text
Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven
Exploring the Text
Myths
Exploring the Text
The Innocent Eye Test
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. The Revolution Is U.S.
Questions
2. Besieged by “Friends”
Questions
3. Cultural Hegemony: Who’s Dominating Whom?
Questions
4. from The Case for Contamination
Questions
5. The Perils of Soft Power
Questions
6. The U.S. Can Reclaim “Smart Power”
Questions
7. Slovakian Soccer Fan at 2010 World Cup in South Africa
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
EXERCISE 5
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 12: The Environment
from Silent Spring
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
from Nature
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
from The Land Ethic
Exploring the Text
Natural Man
Exploring the Text
from The End of Nature
Exploring the Text
The Clan of One-Breasted Women
Exploring the Text
Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp
Exploring the Text
from The Future of Life
Exploring the Text
Inversnaid
Exploring the Text
A Short History of America
Exploring the Text
Let’s Go
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. from Hungry Planet
Questions
2. A Naturalist in the Supermarket
Questions
3. The Locavore Myth
Questions
4. The American Table and The Global Table
Questions
5. The Carnivore’s Dilemma
Questions
6. A Good Food Manifesto for America
Questions
7. Farm to Table
Questions
8. from Test-Tube Burgers
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
EXERCISE 5
EXERCISE 6
Suggestions for Writing
Chapter 13: Politics
On Seeing England for the First Time
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Questions for Discussion
Questions on Rhetoric and Style
Suggestions for Writing
The Gettysburg Address
Exploring the Text
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Exploring the Text
The Destruction of Culture
Exploring the Text
The Apology
Exploring the Text
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Exploring the Text
The Veil
Exploring the Text
On the Rainy River
Exploring the Text
Guernica
Exploring the Text
Depictions of Guernica
Exploring the Text
Conversation
1. Letter to King Ferdinand of Spain
Questions
2. The Requerimiento
Questions
3. Defense of Native American Religion
Questions
4. Shooting an Elephant
Questions
5. from Concerning Violence
Questions
6. In Which the Ancient History I LearnIs Not My Own
Questions
7. from The Empire Fights Back
Questions
8. Christiansted: Official Map and Guide
Questions
Making Connections
Entering the Conversation
Student Writing
Questions
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
Suggestions for Writing
MLA Guidelines for a List of Works Cited
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Book