Walking Meditations: Rhetorical Practive/Rhetorical Analysis
In writing their "walking meditations," students take their readers on journeys -- as minute as crossing a room, or as vast as crossing an ocean -- from Point A to Point B, using these journeys as opportunities to remember and/or to reflect. Although students did not have to model the structure, style, subject, or theme of their essays after hers, Annie Dillard's essay "Heaven and Earth in Jest" served as a rhetorical model of a "walking meditation."
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Eugene Lin |
A Sudden Rain (revised essay)
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Mark Hammer |
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Landscaping (revised essay) |
Rhetorical Analysis of "Landscaping"
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Sam Yam |
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David Gross |
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Sunrise Jog (revised essay)
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Rhetorical Analysis of "Sunrise Jog" |
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Bristin Jones |
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Atrás (revised essay)
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Rhetorical Analysis of "Atrás" |
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Albert Lin |
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What Do I Really Need? (revised essay)
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Rhetorical Analysis of "What Do I Really Need?" |
What Do I Really Need? (further revised essay) |
"Leap of Faith" Essays: Contextual Analysis
The "leap of faith" consists of distinct parts -- a writing progression -- leading students toward conception and authorship of sophisticated and meaningful analytical essays that, while they draw upon ideas and texts related to our course, depend most crucially upon students' original thoughts and their own experience for direction.
David Gross
Mark Hammer
Albert Lin
Life Requires the Elimination of Our Species?
Bristin Jones
Arden Pennell
Angry, Offended, and Enlightened?
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Students' multiple-source research essays address many aspects of the broadest questions of "Writing Nature": what is human identity, and what role do human beings serve in nature? Try following the links from bibliographies to students' online research.
Maggie Smith
Albert Lin
Human Cloning: What Will We Become? (revised essay)
Mark Hammer
The Economics of Genetically Modified Foods (revised essay)
Students' multimedia oral presentations at quarter's end address specific aspects of their research projects.
Andrew Buck
2001-02
Dave Borrelli
2001-02
Tiffany Early
2001-02
PriyaJayachandran
2002-03
Pretty Woman: The Cross-Cultural Standard of Female Facial Attractiveness and Its Biological Basis
Some students use PowerPoint to help them make their their presentations of readins during the course of the quarter.
David Quammen's "The Face of a Spider"
Stephen Jay Gould, "On the Origin of Specious Critics"