Introduction

Chapter 3 - Picturing Ourselves

• Word Portrait: Jason Noll, "Nana's Hands"
• Biography of a famous and influential figure: Nikki Amenson, "Lessons from a Spice Girl"
• Critical Analysis: Phil Pakenham, "Insomnia's Insomniac" (on Sherman Alexie's "Up All Night")

Chapter 4 - Seeing Places

• Eulogy for a Vanished Place: Sarah Schumacher, "The Clearing"
• Analyzing a Place: Ashley Hamm, "Semper Fi"

Chapter 5 - Moving Pictures

• Film Review: Jonathan Krellenstein, "Bowling for Columbine's Causal Argument a Strike"
• Film Review: Whitney Jones, Roger & Me Depicts the American Dream as Shattered
• Film Review: S. Hagan, "Underworld: The Underdone"

Chapter 6 - Mapping Ideas

• Instruction Manual: Eme Crawford and Elizabeth Smith, "Track Changes: Electronic Editing Made Easy"

Chapter 7 - Exploring Design

• The Argument of Design (rheotrical analysis of an advertisement): Tallon Harding, "The WHOPPER® and Implicit Arguments"
• Analyzing Advertisements in Different Media: Jonathan Krellenstein, "Attack Ads: More than 'Child's Play"

Chapter 8 - Debating Culture

• Policy/Proposal Argument: Siobhan Houlihan, "Educate, Don't Attack"
• Reading Visual Arguments: Jonathan Butler, "Visual Images of National Identity: British and French Propaganda Posters of the Great War" (complete draft version of paper excerpted on pages 585-8)