Research Guides

Most of the Research Guides listed here are designed for previously taught classes in Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), and will be helpful to anyone interested in these topic areas.


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Titlesort iconInstructorDeptTerm
A Life's Work: Rhetoric of the Professions ChewPWR 1Wtr 2012
Advertising R Us: The Rhetoric of Advertising LeePWR 1Wtr 2012
All That Jazz: The Rhetoric of American Musical Theater GoldbergPWR 2Wtr 2011
Anything You Can Get Away With: The Rhetoric of What Counts as Art JohnsonPWR 1Wtr 2012
Bodies of Knowledge StreitPWR 2Wtr 2012
Claiming Citizenship: Membership and Rights in Public Discourse KamrathPWR 2Wtr 2012
Communicating the College Experience BilskyPWR 1Wtr 2012
Constructing Childhood Kim SavelsonPWR 1Wtr 2012
Eating-Animals: The Rhetoric of Animals, Food, and the Environment StanescuPWR 1Wtr 2012
Eavesdropping on a mind in solitude: Rhetoric of the Written Self MongPWR 1Wtr 2012
Get Up, Stand Up: The Rhetoric of Human Rights and Humanitarianism MuraliPWR 1Wtr 2012
Global Exchange: Intercultural Communication WattersPWR 2Wtr 2012
Indecision 2012: The Rhetoric of Politics Hanlon-BakerPWR 2Wtr 2012
Let's Hear It for the Boy: The Rhetoric of Bromance FrankPWR 1Wtr 2012
Literacy: Reading, Writing, Power PittockPWR 2Wtr 2012
Love to Hate: The Rhetoric of Misanthropy GemmaPWR 1Wtr 2012
Mountain for Itself: The Rhetoric of Wilderness TodhunterPWR 1Wtr 2012
Neither Here Nor There: The Rhetoric of Ambiguity BarnesPWR 1Wtr 2012
Networked Rhetoric: Social Networks, Participatory Media and the Future of Writing and Research AlfanoPWR 2Wtr 2011
Olympic Rhetoric: Studying the Spirit of the Games MyersPWR 2Wtr 2012
P-Sets, Essays and Midterms: Making Time for Social Change in a Busy World HunterPWR 2Wtr 2012
Postmodernism and the Rhetoric of Uncertainty TaylorPWR 2Wtr 2012
Programmers, Politics, and Protest: Software Development and Rhetorical Power AllenPWR 1Wtr 2012
Propaganda of World War II: Strategies of Persuasion WylePWR 2Wtr 2012
Rhetoric and Global Leadership O'BrienPWR 2Wtr 2012
Rhetoric and Humanitarian Intervention Lee, J.PWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric and Stereotyping: American Indians and Others ShawPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of American Multicultural Experience HerediaPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of Apocalypse SealsPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of Art and Commerce PetersonPWR 2Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of Failure PorterPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of Life Itself: Biotechnology and Emerging Life WilbanksPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of Mass Audiences SchuylerPWR 2Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of Robots WalserPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of Storytelling WoodPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of The Economist Janiszewska PWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetoric of the Unsaid ParkerPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rhetorics of the Novel JonesPWR 1Wtr 2012
Rock ā€˜n’ Rhetoric FordPWR 1Wtr 2012
Supreme Court Rhetoric BatorPWR 1Wtr 2012
Sustainability: Making an Impact with Research and Rhetoric FeldmanPWR 2Wtr 2012
The Rhetoric of Biomedical Ethics StarkmanPWR 1Wtr 2012
The Rhetoric of Technology BrawnPWR 1Wtr 2012
Un-Performing Ourselves: The Design and Craft of Presentations DiPirroPWR 2Wtr 2012
What's So Funny? Humor Race Class and Gender RytkonenPWR 2Wtr 2012
Wishy-Washy or Wise? The Rhetoric of Ambivalence EllisPWR 1Wtr 2012
Writing for the Wild and the Tame MoyerPWR 1Wtr 2012
Writing Nature: Discourses in Ecology, Culture, and Technology RossPWR 1Wtr 2012
Writing Wrongs: Human Rights in the Age of Facebook PellPWR 1Wtr 2012