Each student will analyze a journal article that is relevant to the material we encounter in class. By analyzing secondary works we will gain a broader understanding of the primary material, and we will assemble a bank of sources that may be used in our papers. Analyses should be two pages long and do the following:

• Provide a full citation of the article in MLA format
• Summarize the article's content
• Discuss how the article connects to our primary material
• Discuss how the article might be useful in one or more of our paper types

Students will sign up for a class period to present their Journal Article Analyses. Presentations should include discussion and be no shorter than 10 minutes. Analyses also will be collected electronically to create a class set.

There are many places to find appropriate journals, but if you are not certain where to look, you might check through the indices appended below. You can simply search through some journal issues for topics that catch your eye, or you can do a more focused exploration for articles about a particular topic, theme, or figure.

Rhetoric journal indices:

• Rhetoric and Composition journals in the field
• Council of Writing Program Administrators list of journals in Rhetoric and Composition
• Bowling Green State University list of Rhetoric and Composition journals
• American Rhetoric's list of Communication journals

List of analyses:

• Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence chap. 1—Cathe Shubert
• Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing chap. 1—Jenna McCarthy
• "Authority and American Usage"—Jonathan Clark
• “Online, Bigger Classes May Be Better Classes”—Meghan Barnes
• "Speaking of Evil"—Rebecca Parker
• “Rhetoric of Myth, Magic, and Conversion: A Prolegomena to Ancient Irish Rhetoric”—Emily Miller