What features can I control?

multimodal project would include a combination of text, images, motion, or audio.

Narrowing your search is a crucial part of the research process. With a subject or question that is too broad, you run the risk of trying to cover too much in a single research projec

oogle is certainly useful, but granting it too much power can cause problems, particularly when it comes to finding information relevant to your research topic. This chapter gives you the tools to use Google and other search engines so that you can decide which results are most relevant to your project.

Talking Back Bell Hooks In the world of southern black community I grew up in "back talk" and "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figu

We especially like this template because it suggests that “they say / I say” argument need not be mechanical, impersonal, or dry, and that telling a story and mak-ing an argument are more compatible activities than many think.

The central rhetorical move that we focus on in this book is the “they say / I say” template that gives our book its title. In our view, this template represents the deep, underlying structure, the internal DNA as it were, of all effective argument. Effective persuasive writers do more than make well-supported claims (“I say”); they also map those claims relative to the claims of others (“they say”)

It seems to me that the City of New York, for example – this is my last point – It’s had Negroes in it for a very long time. If the city of New York were able, as it has indeed been able, in the last fifteen years to reconstruct itself,

Now, I suggest that of all the terrible things that can happen to a human being, that is one of the worst. I suggest that what has happened to white Southerners is in some ways, after all, much worse than what has happened to Negroes there because Sheriff Clark in Selma, Alabama, cannot be considered – you know, no one can be dismissed as a total monster.

It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, or 6, or 7, to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you.

find myself, not for the first time, in the position of a kind of Jeremiah. For example, I don’t disagree with Mr. Burford that the inequality suffered by the American Negro population of the United States has hindered the American dream. Indeed, it has. I quarrell with some other things he has to say. The other, deeper, element of a certain awkwardness I feel has to do with one’s point of view. I have to put it that way – one’s sense, one’s system of reality. It would seem to me the proposition before the House, and I would put it that way, is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro, or the American Dream *is* at the expense of the American Negro. Is the question hideously loaded, and then one’s response to that question – one’s reaction to that question – has to depend on effect and, in effect, where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is, what your system of reality is. That is, it depends on assumptions which we hold so deeply so as to be scarcely aware of them.

The nice thing about this benefit is that it can be had no matter what the content of the core curriculum is. It could be the classics of western literature and philosophy. It could be science fiction. It could be globalization. It could be anything so long as every student took it. But whatever it is, please let it include a writing course that teaches writing and not everything under the sun.That should be the real core of any curriculum.

Nevertheless, I found myself often nodding in agreement when I was reading ACTA’s new report. In it, the 100 colleges and universities are ranked on a scale from A to F based on whether students are required to take courses in seven key areas — composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, mathematics and natural or physical science.

And that’s my exact argument, that we all should know everybody’s dialect,at least as many as we can, and be open to the mix of them in oral and writtencommunication (Young)

He say dont nostudent have a rite to they own language if that language make them “vulnerableto prejudice”; that “it may be true that the standard language is [...] a device forprotecting the status quo, but that very truth is a reason for teaching it to students”(Fish “Part 3”

I went to Austin because I wanted to be a different kind of listener than these patients had generally known: doctors winking at their residents, friends biting their lips, skeptics smiling in smug bewilderment. But wanting to be different doesn’t make you so. Paul told me his crazy-ass symptoms and I didn’t believe him. Or at least, I didn’t believe him the way he wanted to be believed. I didn’t believe there were parasites laying thousands of eggs under his skin, but I did believe he suffered as if there were. Which was typical. I was typical. In writing this essay, how am I doing something he wouldn’t understand as betrayal? I want to say, I heard you. To say: I pass no judgments. But I can’t say these things to him. So instead I say this: I think he can heal. I hope he does.

I ask her about this phrase, “female stuff.” It’s like heart disease, she explains. For a long time, women’s heart attacks were misdiagnosed or even ignored because doctors assumed that these patients were simply anxious or overly emotional. I realize Dawn’s disease has been consistently, quietly embedded in a tradition that goes all the way back to nineteenth-century hysteria. She says her co-workers — the nurses, not the doctors — have been remarkably empathetic. Now they come to her whenever they find something strange or unexpected in a wound. She’s become an expert in the inexplicable.

Teachers, as a result, could be more preciseand helpful when they ask students to "think," "argue," "de-scribe," or "define."

He is trying onthe discourse even though he doesn't have the knowledge

When other races have given up their tongue, we've keptourS.

Chicano Spanish is not incorrect, itis a living language

Their purpose: to get rid of our accent

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power.

e asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music," and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey.

wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples,

But Fermat’s principle sounds weird because itdescribes light’s behavior in goal-oriented terms. It sounds like acommandment to a light beam: ‘Thou shalt minimize or maximizethe time taken to reach thy destination.

twasstrangetryingtolearnalanguagethathadnospokenform. Insteadofpracticingmypronunciation,Ihadtakentosqueez-ingmyeyesshutandtryingtopaintsemagramsontheinsidesofmyeyelids

While my English skills were never judged as poor, compared tomath, English could not be considered my strong suit. In grade school I did moderately well, gettingperhaps B's, sometimes B-pluses, in English and scoring perhaps in the sixtieth or seventieth percentile o

And when the doctor finallycalled her daughter, me, who spoke in perfect English -- lo and behold -- we had assurances the CAT scanwould be found, promises that a conference call on Monday would be held, and apologies for any sufferingmy mother had gone through for a most regrettable mistake

Andwherethewordsofwomenarecryingtobeheard,wemusteachofusrecognizeourresponsibilitytoseekthosewordsout,toreadthemandsharethemandexaminethemintheirpertinencetoourlives

Lessthantwomonthsago,Iwastoldbytwodoctors,onefemaleandonemale,thatIwouldhavetohavebreastsurgery,andthattherewasa60to80percentchancethatthetumorwasmalignant.Betweenthetellingandtheactualsurgery,therewasathreeweekperiodoftheagonyofandinvoluntaryreorganizationofmyentirelife.Thesurgerywascompleted,andthegrowthwasbenign