Example of a blog with an argument. Also fits into our past food readings.

ideas

Use this site for concept mapping

Think about the power of "student voice" in your policy paper...and let's think about wikipedia as well!

sample policy brief

Follow this template--your sections on current policies may be generalized, based on general research

an example of a professional policy brief, this one explaining a law

Ok, this is mostly just for fun. It's also an article that's more of a rhetorical analysis (analyzing a recent trend for writer-audience issues) than a contextual analysis. To make it a contextual analysis, I think one would have to go more into memes generally, what they are and why they are significant.

Recent, notable journal and magazine articles arranged by category--so you could find something that relates to your topic possibly. Also notes bloggers at the end.

Personal narration of experiences with gaming as an adult

sample mindmap

PBS always delivers interesting resources!

Good book review about tattooing

Graham

a possible article if you are looking at social networking tools as a cultural "object"

article on culture and syncing...no more mass culture

a possible article for class when we do the fourth paper, on argument

a high school AP level description of a textual analysis paper--with my comparative comments In following this format, you could create a fairly decent paper.

This is true--the item must be identified, whether it is text or visual.