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This chapter introduces the skills and processes involved with learning enough about a topic to discuss it intelligently. You will use the skills you have learned in earlier chapters–freewriting and notetaking as well as analyzing rhetorical situations, focal points, and multiple perspectives–in order to conduct a thorough and complete exploration of any topic you are writing about. This chapter will help you augment these skills through a case study of the arrest and trail of an American citizen, Iva Toguri, who was found guilty of treason and imprisoned for her participation in a propaganda radio show entitled "Zero Hour" during WW II. Controversy still surrounds this case as many argue that Iva was wrongfully convicted by a government determined to find a scapegoat. Objectives The information in this chapter is intended to help you:
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