Writing in the Digital Age (ENGL 107) is a Foundation-level Liberal Arts and Sciences course.
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Walk through our stacks and thumb through magazines. Search the library catalog (OPAC) to find items about different creators, professions, and topics.It includes thousands of ebooks, such as:
Get an encyclopedic view on historic events, persons, and topics.
Also covers many international newspapers.
Use Wikipedia to get biographical information on influential people as well as general overviews of millions of topics.
Identify relevant search words and phrases for use in other databases.
EXCELLENT STARTING POINT FOR THE CULTURAL ARGUMENT ESSAY
Get information on various sides of trending topics and social issues.
Featured Viewpoints collect 4-20 articles that represent different sides or points of view on a topic.
The American newspaper of record for over 150 years, It contains many different types of articles, including opinion pieces, reviews, news reporting, announcements, and letters to the editors.
Many, many different people have been interviewed and profiled within its pages. You can see how coverage of a person or cultural topic has changed over time.
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Once you have a name or issue that interest you, look them up in our research databases. Find specific articles on your research topic.
These online resources cover a variety of sources and media. For instance, the ProQuest Research Library is multidisciplinary and covers many different newspapers.
Find specialized academic sources for comics, fan culture, memes, transformative works, and more
Learn how to cite all of the sources in your paper, including books, articles, images, videos, tweets, blogs, and more.
Analyze the use of rhetoric in a piece of digital writing composed by a prominent public figure of your choice (ex. an artist, journalist, politician, activist, singer, actor, chef, or scientist). First, briefly discuss the piece’s rhetorical situation (author, audience, context/setting, and purpose). Then, analyze in detail how the author uses rhetorical strategies (such as ethos, logos, and pathos). Are their rhetorical choices ultimately successful? Explain.
Choose a cultural issue that is currently relevant that you have a strong opinion about. Compose an essay that presents a well-researched argument about your chosen issue. Who is most affected by it and why is (or isn’t) it worthy of our attention at this moment in time?
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