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  1. Preface
  2. The Things We Carry: Experience, Culture, and Language
    1. 1 Unit Introduction
    2. 1 The Digital World: Building on What You Already Know to Respond Critically
      1. Introduction
      2. 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond
      3. 1.2 Social Media Trailblazer: Selena Gomez
      4. 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
      5. 1.4 Annotated Student Sample: Social Media Post and Responses on Voter Suppression
      6. 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
      7. 1.6 Evaluation: Intention vs. Execution
      8. 1.7 Spotlight on … Academia
      9. 1.8 Portfolio: Tracing Writing Development
      10. Further Reading
      11. Works Cited
    3. 2 Language, Identity, and Culture: Exploring, Employing, Embracing
      1. Introduction
      2. 2.1 Seeds of Self
      3. 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
      4. 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
      5. 2.4 Annotated Sample Reading from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
      6. 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing
      7. 2.6 Evaluation: Antiracism and Inclusivity
      8. 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
      9. 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
      10. Further Reading
      11. Works Cited
    4. 3 Literacy Narrative: Building Bridges, Bridging Gaps
      1. Introduction
      2. 3.1 Identity and Expression
      3. 3.2 Literacy Narrative Trailblazer: Tara Westover
      4. 3.3 Glance at Genre: The Literacy Narrative
      5. 3.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
      6. 3.5 Writing Process: Tracing the Beginnings of Literacy
      7. 3.6 Editing Focus: Sentence Structure
      8. 3.7 Evaluation: Self-Evaluating
      9. 3.8 Spotlight on … The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN)
      10. 3.9 Portfolio: A Literacy Artifact
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
      13. Works Consulted
  3. Bridging the Divide Between Personal Identity and Academia
    1. 2 Unit Introduction
    2. 4 Memoir or Personal Narrative: Learning Lessons from the Personal
      1. Introduction
      2. 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
      3. 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
      4. 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
      5. 4.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
      6. 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
      7. 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
      8. 4.7 Evaluation: Structure and Organization
      9. 4.8 Spotlight on … Multilingual Writers
      10. 4.9 Portfolio: Filtered Memories
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    3. 5 Profile: Telling a Rich and Compelling Story
      1. Introduction
      2. 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
      3. 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
      4. 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
      5. 5.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Remembering John Lewis” by Carla D. Hayden
      6. 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
      7. 5.6 Editing Focus: Verb Tense Consistency
      8. 5.7 Evaluation: Text as Personal Introduction
      9. 5.8 Spotlight on … Profiling a Cultural Artifact
      10. 5.9 Portfolio: Subject as a Reflection of Self
      11. Works Cited
    4. 6 Proposal: Writing About Problems and Solutions
      1. Introduction
      2. 6.1 Proposing Change: Thinking Critically About Problems and Solutions
      3. 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
      4. 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals
      5. 6.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Slowing Climate Change” by Shawn Krukowski
      6. 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal
      7. 6.6 Editing Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement
      8. 6.7 Evaluation: Conventions, Clarity, and Coherence
      9. 6.8 Spotlight on … Technical Writing as a Career
      10. 6.9 Portfolio: Reflecting on Problems and Solutions
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    5. 7 Evaluation or Review: Would You Recommend It?
      1. Introduction
      2. 7.1 Thumbs Up or Down?
      3. 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
      4. 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
      5. 7.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Black Representation in Film" by Caelia Marshall
      6. 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
      7. 7.6 Editing Focus: Quotations
      8. 7.7 Evaluation: Effect on Audience
      9. 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
      10. 7.9 Portfolio: What the Arts Say About You
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    6. 8 Analytical Report: Writing from Facts
      1. Introduction
      2. 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
      3. 8.2 Analytical Report Trailblazer: Barbara Ehrenreich
      4. 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
      5. 8.4 Annotated Student Sample: "U.S. Response to COVID-19" by Trevor Garcia
      6. 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report
      7. 8.6 Editing Focus: Commas with Nonessential and Essential Information
      8. 8.7 Evaluation: Reviewing the Final Draft
      9. 8.8 Spotlight on … Discipline-Specific and Technical Language
      10. 8.9 Portfolio: Evidence and Objectivity
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    7. 9 Rhetorical Analysis: Interpreting the Art of Rhetoric
      1. Introduction
      2. 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts
      3. 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
      4. 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
      5. 9.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Rhetorical Analysis: Evicted by Matthew Desmond” by Eliana Evans
      6. 9.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about Rhetoric
      7. 9.6 Editing Focus: Mixed Sentence Constructions
      8. 9.7 Evaluation: Rhetorical Analysis
      9. 9.8 Spotlight on … Business and Law
      10. 9.9 Portfolio: How Thinking Critically about Rhetoric Affects Intellectual Growth
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    8. 10 Position Argument: Practicing the Art of Rhetoric
      1. Introduction
      2. 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument
      3. 10.2 Position Argument Trailblazer: Charles Blow
      4. 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence
      5. 10.4 Annotated Sample Reading: "Remarks at the University of Michigan" by Lyndon B. Johnson
      6. 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
      7. 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
      8. 10.7 Evaluation: Varied Appeals
      9. 10.8 Spotlight on … Citation
      10. 10.9 Portfolio: Growth in the Development of Argument
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    9. 11 Reasoning Strategies: Improving Critical Thinking
      1. Introduction
      2. 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
      3. 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
      4. 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
      5. 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato
      6. 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
      7. Further Reading
      8. Works Cited
    10. 12 Argumentative Research: Enhancing the Art of Rhetoric with Evidence
      1. Introduction
      2. 12.1 Introducing Research and Research Evidence
      3. 12.2 Argumentative Research Trailblazer: Samin Nosrat
      4. 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence
      5. 12.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Healthy Diets from Sustainable Sources Can Save the Earth" by Lily Tran
      6. 12.5 Writing Process: Integrating Research
      7. 12.6 Editing Focus: Integrating Sources and Quotations
      8. 12.7 Evaluation: Effectiveness of Research Paper
      9. 12.8 Spotlight on … Bias in Language and Research
      10. 12.9 Portfolio: Why Facts Matter in Research Argumentation
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    11. 13 Research Process: Accessing and Recording Information
      1. Introduction
      2. 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
      3. 13.2 The Research Process: How to Create Sources
      4. 13.3 Glance at the Research Process: Key Skills
      5. 13.4 Annotated Student Sample: Research Log
      6. 13.5 Research Process: Making Notes, Synthesizing Information, and Keeping a Research Log
      7. 13.6 Spotlight on … Ethical Research
      8. Further Reading
      9. Works Cited
    12. 14 Annotated Bibliography: Gathering, Evaluating, and Documenting Sources
      1. Introduction
      2. 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
      3. 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
      4. 14.3 Annotated Student Sample: “Healthy Diets from Sustainable Sources Can Save the Earth” by Lily Tran
      5. 14.4 Writing Process: Informing and Analyzing
      6. Further Reading
      7. Works Cited
    13. 15 Case Study Profile: What One Person Says About All
      1. Introduction
      2. 15.1 Tracing a Broad Issue in the Individual
      3. 15.2 Case Study Trailblazer: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
      4. 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
      5. 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
      6. 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
      7. 15.6 Editing Focus: Words Often Confused
      8. 15.7 Evaluation: Presentation and Analysis of Case Study
      9. 15.8 Spotlight on … Applied Linguistics
      10. 15.9 Portfolio: Your Own Uses of Language
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
  4. Navigating Rhetoric in Real Life
    1. 3 Unit Introduction
    2. 16 Print or Textual Analysis: What You Read
      1. Introduction
      2. 16.1 An Author’s Choices: What Text Says and How It Says It
      3. 16.2 Textual Analysis Trailblazer: bell hooks
      4. 16.3 Glance at Genre: Print or Textual Analysis
      5. 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
      6. 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
      7. 16.6 Editing Focus: Literary Works Live in the Present
      8. 16.7 Evaluation: Self-Directed Assessment
      9. 16.8 Spotlight on … Humanities
      10. 16.9 Portfolio: The Academic and the Personal
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    3. 17 Image Analysis: What You See
      1. Introduction
      2. 17.1 “Reading” Images
      3. 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy
      4. 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
      5. 17.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Hints of the Homoerotic” by Leo Davis
      6. 17.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically and Writing Persuasively About Images
      7. 17.6 Editing Focus: Descriptive Diction
      8. 17.7 Evaluation: Relationship Between Analysis and Image
      9. 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
      10. 17.9 Portfolio: Interplay Between Text and Image
      11. Further Reading
      12. Works Cited
    4. 18 Multimodal and Online Writing: Creative Interaction between Text and Image
      1. Introduction
      2. 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
      3. 18.2 Multimodal Trailblazer: Torika Bolatagici
      4. 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization
      5. 18.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Celebrating a Win-Win” by Alexandra Dapolito Dunn
      6. 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
      7. 18.6 Evaluation: Transitions
      8. 18.7 Spotlight on . . . Technology
      9. 18.8 Portfolio: Multimodalism
      10. Further Reading
      11. Works Cited
    5. 19 Scripting for the Public Forum: Writing to Speak
      1. Introduction
      2. 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
      3. 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
      4. 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
      5. 19.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Are New DOT Regulations Discriminatory?” by Zain A. Kumar
      6. 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
      7. 19.6 Evaluation: Bridging Writing and Speaking
      8. 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
      9. 19.8 Portfolio: Everyday Rhetoric, Rhetoric Every Day
      10. Further Reading
      11. Works Cited
    6. 20 Portfolio Reflection: Your Growth as a Writer
      1. Introduction
      2. 20.1 Thinking Critically about Your Semester
      3. 20.2 Reflection Trailblazer: Sandra Cisneros
      4. 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
      5. 20.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Don’t Expect Congrats” by Dale Trumbore
      6. 20.5 Writing Process: Looking Back, Looking Forward
      7. 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
      8. 20.7 Evaluation: Evaluating Self-Reflection
      9. 20.8 Spotlight on … Pronouns in Context
      10. Further Reading
      11. Works Cited
  5. Handbook
  6. Index
A
AAVE 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English, 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
ableism 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Abrams 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Abstract 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
academia Unit 2 Unit Introduction, 1.7 Spotlight on … Academia
Academic article databases 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
Academic OneFile from Gale 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Academic Search Complete 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources, 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Access Is Love 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Accurate Quotation 12.6 Editing Focus: Integrating Sources and Quotations
Achebe 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
Acknowledgments 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
action 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
active voice 8.8 Spotlight on … Discipline-Specific and Technical Language, Handbook
Ad hominem 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
Adams 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
adjectives 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Agenda 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
agents Introduction
Ain’t I a Woman 16.2 Textual Analysis Trailblazer: bell hooks
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 16.2 Textual Analysis Trailblazer: bell hooks
Alberto 15.8 Spotlight on … Applied Linguistics
Ali 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
allegory 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato
Allusion 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence
Ally 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
Almanacs 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
American Museum of Natural History 17.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically and Writing Persuasively About Images
American Notes for General Circulation 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing
American Psychological Association (APA) 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
American Rhetoric 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Americans with Disabilities Act 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Amplification 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
analogy 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
Analysis 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis, 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
analytical bibliography 14.4 Writing Process: Informing and Analyzing
analytical report Introduction
analyze 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
Anaphora 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
anecdotes Introduction, 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
angle 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration, 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
annotated bibliography Introduction, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Annotations 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
antecedent 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, Handbook
Anti-racist 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
Appearance 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Appendix 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
applied linguistics 15.8 Spotlight on … Applied Linguistics
argument 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Aristotle Introduction, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, Introduction, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
arrangement 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
articles Handbook
Articulation 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Atlantic 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Atlases 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Auburtin 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
audience 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, Introduction, 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization, Introduction, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Audio 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
Authority 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
Avengers 7.1 Thumbs Up or Down?, 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
B
Bâ 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
background 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Background information 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Bait and switch 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
Bandwagon 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Bangladesh 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
Bar Charts 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
Beautiful Struggle 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Beckett 4.8 Spotlight on … Multilingual Writers
Best-first order 1.8 Portfolio: Tracing Writing Development
Between the World and Me 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
bias 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 6.1 Proposing Change: Thinking Critically About Problems and Solutions, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 12.8 Spotlight on … Bias in Language and Research, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
bibliography 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Bicêtre Hospital 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
Biographical dictionaries 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
BIOSCAN 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
Black Classic Press 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black English Vernacular 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Black Leopard, Red Wolf 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Black Lives Matter 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.1 “Reading” Images
Black Panther 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture, 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
Black Panther Party 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
BlackLivesMatter 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Blaut 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
blogs 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization, 18.7 Spotlight on . . . Technology
Blow Introduction, 10.2 Position Argument Trailblazer: Charles Blow, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Body 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Bolatagici 18.2 Multimodal Trailblazer: Torika Bolatagici
boldface 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Boolean operators 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Borges 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy
Boseman 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Bouillaud 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
brainstorming 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Brigham Young University 3.2 Literacy Narrative Trailblazer: Tara Westover
British Grand Slam 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Broadway 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing
Broca 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
Brooks 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text, 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
Brownlee 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Burke 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
Burns 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
Byrd 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
C
Caesar Introduction
Call of the Wild 10.8 Spotlight on … Citation
caption 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
Case for Reparations 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
case study Introduction
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
catharsis Introduction
Causal fallacy 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
Cause-and-effect 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions, 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
causes and effects 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
Chambers 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration, 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
channels 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
Characters 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
Chavez 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
Cherokee Introduction
Chicago 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Chief Joseph 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Chopin 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
Chronemics 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Chronological order 1.8 Portfolio: Tracing Writing Development, 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Chronos 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
circular argument 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Cisneros 4.8 Spotlight on … Multilingual Writers, 20.2 Reflection Trailblazer: Sandra Cisneros
Citation 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
City University of New York 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Civil Disobedience 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
Civil War 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
claim 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
clarification 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
clarity 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
classification 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
Clean Water Act 17.1 “Reading” Images
climax 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
Clinton 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
CNN 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith, 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Coates 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Code-switching 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
cognitive bias 6.1 Proposing Change: Thinking Critically About Problems and Solutions, 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
College Composition and Communication 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
colon Handbook
colonized self 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
color 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
Columbia Encyclopedia 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Comey 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
comma splice Handbook
common knowledge 13.6 Spotlight on … Ethical Research
Community Reading Room in Melbourne, Australia 18.2 Multimodal Trailblazer: Torika Bolatagici
Compare and contrast 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions, 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Comparison and Contrast 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
complex sentence Handbook
Composition 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
Compound objects Handbook
compound sentence Handbook
Compound subjects Handbook
compound-complex sentence Handbook
Concession or agreement 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
Conclusion 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals, Handbook
conclusion statement 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
concrete nouns Handbook
conditions Introduction, 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond
Confederacy 17.1 “Reading” Images
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
confirmation bias 6.1 Proposing Change: Thinking Critically About Problems and Solutions, 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
Conflict 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
connotations 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
consequences 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
Contemporary Authors 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
context 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond, 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing, 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, Introduction, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
contraction 15.6 Editing Focus: Words Often Confused
Contrast 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
conventions 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
coordinating conjunction Handbook
copyright 17.1 “Reading” Images
Counterclaim (dissenting opinion) 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence
counterclaims 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence
Country Music 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
CQ Researcher 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
creative nonfiction 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
credible sources 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
CripTheVote 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
criteria Introduction, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Critical race theory 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
Critical thinking 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
criticism 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Critics 7.1 Thumbs Up or Down?, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Cultural appropriation 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
cultural considerations 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
cultural critic 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
cultural lens 2.1 Seeds of Self
cultural system 2.1 Seeds of Self
culture 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond, 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, Introduction, 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation, 3.1 Identity and Expression, 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, Introduction, 18.2 Multimodal Trailblazer: Torika Bolatagici, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Current Biography 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
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Dance Dance Revolution: Poems 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
dash Handbook
Data 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
databases 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Dawkins 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
Deakin University 18.2 Multimodal Trailblazer: Torika Bolatagici
Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
debatable issue 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 12.1 Introducing Research and Research Evidence
decolonized self 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
deductive reasoning 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Definition 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
delayed-thesis 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Demographics 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Demonstrative pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
DeMuro 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Demuth 17.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Hints of the Homoerotic” by Leo Davis
Denotation 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
Description 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
descriptive annotations 14.4 Writing Process: Informing and Analyzing
descriptive language 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Desmond 9.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Rhetorical Analysis: Evicted by Matthew Desmond” by Eliana Evans, 9.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Rhetorical Analysis: Evicted by Matthew Desmond” by Eliana Evans
Detail 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto 10.2 Position Argument Trailblazer: Charles Blow
dialects 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English, Handbook
dialogue 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Dickens 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Dictionaries 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
differences 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives 3.5 Writing Process: Tracing the Beginnings of Literacy, 3.8 Spotlight on … The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN)
digital deserts 18.7 Spotlight on . . . Technology
Direct quotation 7.6 Editing Focus: Quotations, 13.5 Research Process: Making Notes, Synthesizing Information, and Keeping a Research Log
Disability Visibility Project (DVP) 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
discrimination Introduction
Discussion 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Distorted Quotation 12.6 Editing Focus: Integrating Sources and Quotations
division 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
doubling 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
Douglass 3.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Drafting 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report
Du Bois Introduction
Dupree 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Dupuytren 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne, 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
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Ebert 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Ebonics 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English, 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Educated: A Memoir 3.2 Literacy Narrative Trailblazer: Tara Westover
Effect 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Ehrenreich 8.2 Analytical Report Trailblazer: Barbara Ehrenreich
ellipsis Handbook
Ellison 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
Emancipation Proclamation 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Emotional tax 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
empathy 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument
Emphasis 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
Encyclopedias 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Endeavour Introduction
English variety 5.6 Editing Focus: Verb Tense Consistency
entertain 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Environmental Protection Agency 17.1 “Reading” Images, 18.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Celebrating a Win-Win” by Alexandra Dapolito Dunn
epigraph 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
epistrophe 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt 17.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically and Writing Persuasively About Images
Essential information 8.6 Editing Focus: Commas with Nonessential and Essential Information, Handbook
Ethnocentrism 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation, 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization
ethos 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, Introduction, Introduction, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization, 18.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Celebrating a Win-Win” by Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Evaluation 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, Introduction, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 14.4 Writing Process: Informing and Analyzing, 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
Evidence 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, Introduction, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, Introduction, 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Example 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
exclamation point Handbook
execution 1.6 Evaluation: Intention vs. Execution
executive summary 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
exigency 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
Expert opinion 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
exposition 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
Eye contact 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
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Facebook 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
facial expressions 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Fact 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Factiva 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Facts 6.1 Proposing Change: Thinking Critically About Problems and Solutions, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, Introduction, 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 12.9 Portfolio: Why Facts Matter in Research Argumentation
Facts on File World News Digest 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Factual information 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
Fallacies 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
falling action 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
false consensus effect 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
Fandom 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Farrelly 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
fear 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Field notes 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
field observations 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Field research 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 13.2 The Research Process: How to Create Sources
fieldwork 13.2 The Research Process: How to Create Sources
Figurative language 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
film reviews Introduction
findings 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Fire Shut Up in My Bones 10.2 Position Argument Trailblazer: Charles Blow
first-person narrator 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
first-person point of view Introduction, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Flashback 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
flipbook 18.7 Spotlight on . . . Technology
Floyd 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 17.1 “Reading” Images
Fluency 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Focused subject 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Foreshadowing 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
formal 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Format 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Forster 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
fragmented sentences 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Franzen 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Fraser 17.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically and Writing Persuasively About Images
freewrite 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 1.8 Portfolio: Tracing Writing Development, 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing
Freud 13.6 Spotlight on … Ethical Research
Fuller 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy
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Gale in Context 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Galilei 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Gandhi 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers, 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
Garner 17.1 “Reading” Images
Gawande 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
Gender 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
General American English 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
general-interest database 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Generic nouns Handbook
genre 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond, Introduction, 3.3 Glance at Genre: The Literacy Narrative, 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, Introduction, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, Introduction, 16.3 Glance at Genre: Print or Textual Analysis, 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
genre elements 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
gerund Handbook
Gestural 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
gestures 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Gianini 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Giles 17.1 “Reading” Images
Glamour 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Glaucon 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato, 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato
Goddard 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Golden Globe Awards 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Gomez 1.2 Social Media Trailblazer: Selena Gomez
Goodall 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy
Goodwin 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Google 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Google Scholar 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
Gore 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
Grambling State University 10.2 Position Argument Trailblazer: Charles Blow
Gratiolet 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
Great Lakes Institute at Windsor 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
Great Society Introduction, 10.4 Annotated Sample Reading: "Remarks at the University of Michigan" by Lyndon B. Johnson
Green Book 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Grudge 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
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Hamer 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Hammond World Atlas 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
happening 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
Harper’s Magazine 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
Hart 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond
Hartsell 5.8 Spotlight on … Profiling a Cultural Artifact
Harvard Medical School 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
hasty generalization 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Haunted Mind 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
Hawthorne 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
Hayden 5.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Remembering John Lewis” by Carla D. Hayden
headline 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
Hebert 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert, 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Hill Introduction
Historical Text Archive 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
Hollywood 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Hollywood Foreign Press Association 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Homer 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Homographs 15.6 Editing Focus: Words Often Confused
Homonyms 15.6 Editing Focus: Words Often Confused
Homophones 15.6 Editing Focus: Words Often Confused
Hong Introduction, 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
House of My Own: Stories from My Life 20.2 Reflection Trailblazer: Sandra Cisneros
House on Mango Street 20.2 Reflection Trailblazer: Sandra Cisneros
Howard University 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Huerta 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Hyperbole 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
hypertonic 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
hypothesis 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
hypotonic 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 3.3 Glance at Genre: The Literacy Narrative
I Have a Dream 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Identity Introduction, 3.1 Identity and Expression
idiolect 3.1 Identity and Expression
imagery 4.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
imperative mood Handbook
In Its Immensely Satisfying Season Finale, Game of Thrones Became the Show It Had Always Tried Not to Be. 7.1 Thumbs Up or Down?
inciting incident 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
indefinite pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, Handbook
Indiana University 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
indicative mood Handbook
inductive reasoning 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Inferences 12.9 Portfolio: Why Facts Matter in Research Argumentation
infinitive Handbook
infographic 17.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically and Writing Persuasively About Images
inform 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
informal 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
information 17.1 “Reading” Images
informational text 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
intellectual property 10.8 Spotlight on … Citation
Intellectual property laws 17.1 “Reading” Images
intention 1.6 Evaluation: Intention vs. Execution, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
Interesting lead 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
internal monologue 20.5 Writing Process: Looking Back, Looking Forward
International Barcode of Life 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
internment camps 5.8 Spotlight on … Profiling a Cultural Artifact
interpret 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.1 “Reading” Images
interpretive communities 16.3 Glance at Genre: Print or Textual Analysis
intersection Introduction
intersectionality Introduction, 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
Interview 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Into the Wild 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
Into Thin Air 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
Introduction 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Iron Man 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
irregular Handbook
Isotonic 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
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Jackson 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
James 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Japan 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Jefferson 20.8 Spotlight on … Pronouns in Context
Jemison Introduction
Jim Crow laws 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing, 17.1 “Reading” Images
Joan of Arc 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Joe 17.1 “Reading” Images
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
Johnson Introduction, 10.4 Annotated Sample Reading: "Remarks at the University of Michigan" by Lyndon B. Johnson, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Journalism, behind Barbed Wire 5.8 Spotlight on … Profiling a Cultural Artifact
journalist’s questions 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report
Judgment 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Junger 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
Juxtaposition 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric, 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
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Kairos 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, Introduction, Introduction, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Kakutani 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Keller 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self, 3.5 Writing Process: Tracing the Beginnings of Literacy
Kennedy 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Kerlin 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Kinesics 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
King 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Kinkaid 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self
Knocked Up 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
Krakauer 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
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labyrinthine sentences 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Lahiri 4.8 Spotlight on … Multilingual Writers
language Introduction
language acquisition theory 15.8 Spotlight on … Applied Linguistics
Language and Linguistics Student Conference 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
Language bias 12.8 Spotlight on … Bias in Language and Research
Leborgne 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
Letter of transmittal 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Lewis 5.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Remembering John Lewis” by Carla D. Hayden
Library of Congress 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
Life on the Mississippi 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
Light 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
limited point of view 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
Line 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
Line Graphs 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
Linguistic text 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes, 18.6 Evaluation: Transitions
literacy Introduction
literacy narrative Introduction
literary allegory 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato
literature review 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Location 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions
logic 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
logical fallacies 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts
Logos 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, Introduction, Introduction, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
London 10.8 Spotlight on … Citation
Loyola University 20.2 Reflection Trailblazer: Sandra Cisneros
Lucas 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Ludy 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy
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Mailer 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
main clause Handbook
Make It Messy 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Makeba 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Mama’s Girl 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Mandela 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Martin 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence
Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Marvel Comics 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
Matisse 17.6 Editing Focus: Descriptive Diction
McClure 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
Media literacy 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
Medium 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
Meme 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
memoir Introduction, 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
metaphors 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Methods 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Microaggression 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
Microsoft Word 9.8 Spotlight on … Business and Law
Midlands Technical College 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
Midwest American English 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Milgram 15.1 Tracing a Broad Issue in the Individual
Milgram Experiment 15.1 Tracing a Broad Issue in the Individual
Miller 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
Minority Achievement Committee (MAC) 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
MIT 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
mixed sentence Handbook
Möbius strip 17.1 “Reading” Images
mockup 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
Mode 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
Modern Language Association (MLA) 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
modes 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
Monthly Catalog of United States 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
mood 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, Handbook
Mortensen 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Mother Jones 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
MSNBC 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
MTV News 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
multimodal 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric, Introduction, 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
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Naked Raygun 17.1 “Reading” Images
narration 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Narrative structure 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 2.4 Annotated Sample Reading from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
National Council on Disability 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
National Geographic Atlas of the World 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
National Public Radio 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer 8.2 Analytical Report Trailblazer: Barbara Ehrenreich
Natural History Museum 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
Neurodiversity 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
New Encyclopædia Britannica 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
New Republic 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong, 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
New York Times 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
New York Times Magazine 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
New Yorker 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
Newsweek 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Nez Percé 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Ngozi-Adichie 4.8 Spotlight on … Multilingual Writers
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 8.2 Analytical Report Trailblazer: Barbara Ehrenreich
non-rhotic 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Nonessential information 8.6 Editing Focus: Commas with Nonessential and Essential Information, Handbook
nonparticipant 13.2 The Research Process: How to Create Sources
nonstandard dialects 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Nosrat 12.2 Argumentative Research Trailblazer: Samin Nosrat, 12.2 Argumentative Research Trailblazer: Samin Nosrat
Numerical data 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
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O’Brien Unit 1 Unit Introduction
O’Keeffe 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy, 17.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Hints of the Homoerotic” by Leo Davis
Obama 2.1 Seeds of Self, 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self, 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 9.8 Spotlight on … Business and Law, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Oberlin College 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
object distinction 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
object of the preposition 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
object personal pronoun 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
object personal pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
Objections 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals
objective case 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking, 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, Handbook
Objective stance 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
objects 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
Observation 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
observation environment 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
omniscient 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
On Rhetoric Introduction
Opinions 6.1 Proposing Change: Thinking Critically About Problems and Solutions, 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
Opposing Viewpoints in Context from Gale 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
oppression 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
Organization 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization
Oscars 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
outline 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
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Paine 20.8 Spotlight on … Pronouns in Context
Panisse 12.2 Argumentative Research Trailblazer: Samin Nosrat
paperwork reduction 9.8 Spotlight on … Business and Law
Paralanguage 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Parallel structure 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
Parallelism 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak, Handbook
Paraphrase 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 12.5 Writing Process: Integrating Research, 13.5 Research Process: Making Notes, Synthesizing Information, and Keeping a Research Log, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
parentheses Handbook
participant observer 13.2 The Research Process: How to Create Sources
participants 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Paskin 7.1 Thumbs Up or Down?, 7.1 Thumbs Up or Down?
passive voice 8.8 Spotlight on … Discipline-Specific and Technical Language, Handbook
Past tense 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 5.6 Editing Focus: Verb Tense Consistency
Pathos 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, Introduction, Introduction, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
pattern 17.1 “Reading” Images
Pearl Harbor 5.8 Spotlight on … Profiling a Cultural Artifact, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
peer review 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
Peer-reviewed source 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 17.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Hints of the Homoerotic” by Leo Davis
Perfect Storm 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
period Handbook
Persona 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
personal narrative Introduction, 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
personal pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
Personification 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
perspective 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 12.1 Introducing Research and Research Evidence, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
persuade 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
persuasive arguments 17.1 “Reading” Images
Pie Charts 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
Pitch 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
plagiarism 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals
plagiarize 10.8 Spotlight on … Citation
Plain Writing Act of 2010 9.8 Spotlight on … Business and Law, 9.8 Spotlight on … Business and Law
planning 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report
Plato 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato, 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato, 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato, 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato
Plot 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
point 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Point of view 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric, Handbook
Politico 50 9.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Rhetorical Analysis: Evicted by Matthew Desmond” by Eliana Evans
Pollution Prevention (P2) Act 18.4 Annotated Sample Reading: “Celebrating a Win-Win” by Alexandra Dapolito Dunn
Pop Culture Happy Hour 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
position arguments 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument
possessive case 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
possessive pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
predicament 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
premise 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
present tense 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 5.6 Editing Focus: Verb Tense Consistency
preview statement 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
prewriting 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
primary data sources 12.1 Introducing Research and Research Evidence
primary research 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
primary sources 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Primary Sources 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Princeton University 9.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Rhetorical Analysis: Evicted by Matthew Desmond” by Eliana Evans
Problem 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Problem-and-solution 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
professional email 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
profile writing Introduction, 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
Profiles in Courage 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
Pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, Handbook
Pronovost 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
propaganda 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
proposal Introduction
prototype 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
Proxemics 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
Pugh 17.1 “Reading” Images
Pulitzer Prize 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
purpose 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, Introduction, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, Introduction, 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals, 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
purpose statement 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
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qualitative research 15.1 Tracing a Broad Issue in the Individual, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
quantitative research 15.1 Tracing a Broad Issue in the Individual, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Queen’s University 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
question mark Handbook
quick write 1.8 Portfolio: Tracing Writing Development
Quintanilla-Perez 1.2 Social Media Trailblazer: Selena Gomez
Quotation 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, Handbook
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Rablin 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
Rachel Maddow Show 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
Raisin in the Sun 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
Ramachandran 15.2 Case Study Trailblazer: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Random House Encyclopedia 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Ratargul 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
Rate of speech 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
reasoning 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 10.1 Making a Case: Defining a Position Argument, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
reasoning strategies 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
reasons 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
Recap 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
recommendation 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Recommendations 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Reconstruction 17.1 “Reading” Images
recursive 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing, 3.5 Writing Process: Tracing the Beginnings of Literacy, 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak, Introduction
Reed College 8.2 Analytical Report Trailblazer: Barbara Ehrenreich
References 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Reflect 14.4 Writing Process: Informing and Analyzing, 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
reflection 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
Reflective writing 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
Reflexive pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
refrain 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Refuge 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
Refutation of counterclaims 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
regional dialect 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
regular Handbook
remedy 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
Repetition 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
reporters’ questions 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Reporting structure 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
research Introduction
research behaviors Introduction
research log 13.2 The Research Process: How to Create Sources, 13.3 Glance at the Research Process: Key Skills
research plan 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Research question 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Resist: 40 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up against Tyranny and Injustice 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
resolution 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
Results 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
revelation 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
Reverse chronological order 1.8 Portfolio: Tracing Writing Development
Review 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
review genre Introduction
revising 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 12.5 Writing Process: Integrating Research
rhetoric Introduction, 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts, Introduction, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Rhetorical analysis 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
Rhetorical appeals 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Rhetorical devices 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Rhetorical question 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence
rhetorical situation Introduction, 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 3.1 Identity and Expression, 3.5 Writing Process: Tracing the Beginnings of Literacy, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, Introduction, Introduction, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Rhodes Scholarship 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
rhotic 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
rigorous 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Ripert 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
rising action 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
Roanoke College Introduction
Robinson 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
Rockefeller University 8.2 Analytical Report Trailblazer: Barbara Ehrenreich
Rolling Stone 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present, 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
Roosevelt 17.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically and Writing Persuasively About Images, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Rorick 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Royal Shakespeare Company 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
run-on sentence Handbook
Rutgers University 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking 12.2 Argumentative Research Trailblazer: Samin Nosrat
Samuelsson 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Sarah Lawrence College 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
Scandal Introduction
Schindler 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Scholarly journal articles 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
School of Art and Design, University of New South Wales 18.2 Multimodal Trailblazer: Torika Bolatagici
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy
Schumann 15.8 Spotlight on … Applied Linguistics
script writing Introduction
Second Life 17.2 Image Trailblazer: Sara Ludy
second-person narration 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
second-person point of view 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View, 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
secondary research 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
secondary sources 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 12.1 Introducing Research and Research Evidence, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
segregation 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing
semicolon Handbook
Sensory language 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts
Sentence combining 3.6 Editing Focus: Sentence Structure
sentence fragment Handbook
sequencing 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Sequoyah Introduction, 2.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about How Identity Is Constructed Through Writing
Setting 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
sexist language 12.8 Spotlight on … Bias in Language and Research
Shakespeare 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Shining 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization
Shirley 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Show and tell 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
signal phrase 7.6 Editing Focus: Quotations, 12.6 Editing Focus: Integrating Sources and Quotations, Handbook
Signpost language 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
signposts 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
similarities 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
similes 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
simple sentence Handbook
Siskel 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
slang Handbook
Slippery slope 9.1 Breaking the Whole into Its Parts
Smith 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith, Introduction
social dialect 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
social justice 10.4 Annotated Sample Reading: "Remarks at the University of Michigan" by Lyndon B. Johnson
Social media 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 15.4 Annotated Sample Reading: Case Study on Louis Victor "Tan" Leborgne
Society of Professional Journalists 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
Socrates 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato, 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato, 11.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Book VII of The Republic by Plato, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism
Solution 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words
Sorensen 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
Souls of Black Folk 2.4 Annotated Sample Reading from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Southeastern Conference athletics organization 17.1 “Reading” Images
Spatial 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
Spatial structure 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
Specific details 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
Specific evidence 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
Specific topic 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
Spectrum 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
Speculation 20.3 Glance at Genre: Purpose and Structure
Sports Illustrated 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
stage directions 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
stance 1.1 "Reading" to Understand and Respond, Introduction, 12.5 Writing Process: Integrating Research
Standard dialect 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English
Stanford University 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande, 16.2 Textual Analysis Trailblazer: bell hooks, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
statistics 6.1 Proposing Change: Thinking Critically About Problems and Solutions, 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
storyboard 18.5 Writing Process: Create a Multimodal Advocacy Project
StoryCorps 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Style 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
style guide 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
Subgenre 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation
subject 6.6 Editing Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
subject personal pronouns 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
subject-verb agreement 6.6 Editing Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement
subjective case 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns, Handbook
subjectivity 8.1 Information and Critical Thinking
subjects 20.6 Editing Focus: Pronouns
subjunctive mood Handbook
Subordinate clauses Handbook
Sugarhill Gang 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
Sullivan 3.5 Writing Process: Tracing the Beginnings of Literacy
Summary 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions, 13.5 Research Process: Making Notes, Synthesizing Information, and Keeping a Research Log, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 14.4 Writing Process: Informing and Analyzing
Survey 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 13.2 The Research Process: How to Create Sources, 15.3 Glance at Genre: Observation, Description, and Analysis
Sydney University 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
symbol 17.1 “Reading” Images, 17.3 Glance at Genre: Relationship Between Image and Rhetoric
Syntax 2.1 Seeds of Self
Synthesis 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 13.3 Glance at the Research Process: Key Skills, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
synthesize 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
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Table of contents 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Tables 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
Taft 5.1 Profiles as Inspiration
Target 15.9 Portfolio: Your Own Uses of Language
technical manipulations 17.1 “Reading” Images
TED Talks 3.8 Spotlight on … The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), 15.2 Case Study Trailblazer: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Teichner 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Teigen 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison, 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
tense 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, Handbook
Tertiary sources 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment
textual analysis 16.1 An Author’s Choices: What Text Says and How It Says It, 16.1 An Author’s Choices: What Text Says and How It Says It
the personal vs. the universal 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
The Washington Post 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
theme 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, Introduction, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Thesis 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 7.1 Thumbs Up or Down?, 7.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Entertainment, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
thesis statement 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 9.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically about Rhetoric, 17.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically and Writing Persuasively About Images, Handbook
thesis-first organization 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Thick description 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject, 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject
Things They Carried Unit 1 Unit Introduction
Third-person narration 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View
third-person point of view 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal
Thirty two (32) Yolks 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Thomas 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Thoreau 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text, 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
Thunberg 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Time 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani
Times Atlas of the World 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Title page 8.3 Glance at Genre: Informal and Formal Analytical Reports
Tone 1.3 Glance at Critical Response: Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, 2.1 Seeds of Self, 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description, 5.5 Writing Process: Focusing on the Angle of Your Subject, 7.3 Glance at Genre: Criteria, Evidence, Evaluation, 17.1 “Reading” Images, 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Topic 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 12.3 Glance at Genre: Introducing Research as Evidence, 19.3 Glance at Genre: Language Performance and Visuals
Topic sentence 6.3 Glance at Genre: Features of Proposals, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, Handbook
Topical structure 5.3 Glance at Genre: Subject, Angle, Background, and Description
transatlantic slave trade 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
transition statements 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Transitional words or phrases 10.3 Glance at Genre: Thesis, Reasoning, and Evidence, 10.6 Editing Focus: Paragraphs and Transitions, Handbook
transitions 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 18.6 Evaluation: Transitions, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Translating Mo’um 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong
Truman 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Trump 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
Truth 16.2 Textual Analysis Trailblazer: bell hooks
Turabian Style 14.2 Glance at Form: Citation Style, Purpose, and Formatting
Turner 16.4 Annotated Student Sample: "Artists at Work" by Gwyn Garrison
Twain Introduction, 4.4 Annotated Sample Reading: from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public, 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View, 4.6 Editing Focus: More on Characterization and Point of View, 17.6 Editing Focus: Descriptive Diction
Twitter 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
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U.S. Army 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
U.S. Department of Transportation 19.4 Annotated Student Sample: “Are New DOT Regulations Discriminatory?” by Zain A. Kumar
UCLA 15.8 Spotlight on … Applied Linguistics
Unconscious bias 2.3 Glance at the Issues: Oppression and Reclamation
Underground Railroad 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Understatement 9.3 Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies
Union 17.1 “Reading” Images
United Nations 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
United Shades of America 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
University of Alberta 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
University of California 11.3 Glance at Genre: Reasoning Strategies and Signal Words, 12.2 Argumentative Research Trailblazer: Samin Nosrat, 15.2 Case Study Trailblazer: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
University of Cambridge 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert, 15.2 Case Study Trailblazer: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
University of Central Oklahoma 15.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About How People and Language Interact
University of Guelph 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
University of North Carolina 15.9 Portfolio: Your Own Uses of Language
University of Oxford 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande
University of Pennsylvania 9.2 Rhetorical Analysis Trailblazer: Jamil Smith
University of Windsor 11.2 Reasoning Trailblazer: Paul D. N. Hebert
USNS Comfort 8.4 Annotated Student Sample: "U.S. Response to COVID-19" by Trevor Garcia
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Vallelonga 7.8 Spotlight on … Language and Culture
Vaughan 17.1 “Reading” Images
verb 6.6 Editing Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement
verb tenses 5.6 Editing Focus: Verb Tense Consistency
verbal fillers 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
video 18.7 Spotlight on . . . Technology
Vietnam War Unit 1 Unit Introduction, 17.8 Spotlight on … Video and Film
Viewpoint 2.1 Seeds of Self
Visuals 6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal, 8.5 Writing Process: Creating an Analytical Report, 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 18.1 Mixing Genres and Modes
Vivid details 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation
vlog 18.3 Glance at Genre: Genre, Audience, Purpose, Organization
Vocabulary 2.1 Seeds of Self
voice 2.1 Seeds of Self, 4.3 Glance at Genre: Conflict, Detail, and Revelation, 4.5 Writing Process: Making the Personal Public
Volume 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
vulnerability 1.8 Portfolio: Tracing Writing Development
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Walden 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text, 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
Wall Street Journal 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
Wallis 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”
Washington Monthly 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Water Dancer 4.2 Memoir Trailblazer: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Waters 12.2 Argumentative Research Trailblazer: Samin Nosrat
Watkins 16.2 Textual Analysis Trailblazer: bell hooks
We Real Cool 16.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About Text
Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Westover 3.2 Literacy Narrative Trailblazer: Tara Westover
Who’s Who in America 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Williams 4.1 Exploring the Past to Understand the Present
Wizards of Waverly Place 1.2 Social Media Trailblazer: Selena Gomez
Woman’s Rights Convention 16.2 Textual Analysis Trailblazer: bell hooks
Wong Introduction, 19.2 Podcast Trailblazer: Alice Wong
Wordsworth 11.1 Developing Your Sense of Logic
working thesis statement 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument
Working topic sentence 11.5 Writing Process: Reasoning Supported by Evidence
Works Cited or References 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
World Almanac and Book of Facts 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
World Health Organization 6.2 Proposal Trailblazer: Atul Gawande, 14.1 Compiling Sources for an Annotated Bibliography
World War I 10.5 Writing Process: Creating a Position Argument, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
World War II 1.5 Writing Process: Thinking Critically About a “Text”, 19.1 Writing, Speaking, and Activism, 19.5 Writing Process: Writing to Speak
Writers’ Workshop 2.2 Identity Trailblazer: Cathy Park Hong, 20.2 Reflection Trailblazer: Sandra Cisneros
writing process 3.5 Writing Process: Tracing the Beginnings of Literacy
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Yale University 7.2 Review Trailblazer: Michiko Kakutani, 15.1 Tracing a Broad Issue in the Individual
yearbooks 13.1 The Research Process: Where to Look for Existing Sources
Yes, Chef 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
Yousafzai 3.3 Glance at Genre: The Literacy Narrative
YouTube 19.7 Spotlight on … Delivery/Public Speaking
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Zapata 5.2 Profile Trailblazer: Veronica Chambers
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