Reading for Week I: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1806946,00.html
See Writing Assignments for explanation of writing the persuasive essay.
Required Books: These are available in the Evergreen bookstore and we encourage you to buy them there. The bookstore now stocks primarily used books.
Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say, I Say: The moves that matter in academic writing
David Altheide, Terrorism and the Politics of Fear
George Lakoff, Moral Politics: How liberals and conservatives think
Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought
David Barker. Rushed to Judgment: Talk radio, persuasion, and American political behavior
Leslie Savan. Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Pop Language in your life, the media, and like . . . whatever
Penelope Eckert & Sally McConnell-Ginet, Language and Gender
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