Getting Started - Assignment | Rhetorical Criticism Project (Whalen) - Research Guides at Lone Star College

Assignment

Your Goals:

To analyze a cultural artifact (song, TV show, etc) through the lens of a rhetorical methodology.

10 (minimum) outside sources
12-15 page APA format paper
10-15 minute speech

Rhetorical Criticism Project
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Managing Your Research

Your process to capture sources and citations will be very individual, but be consistent and choose a tool to help organize your research. Some suggested tools:

PowerNotes
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Free to UP students/employees! Web clipper to track citations, notes, and sources. Create an account with your LSC email. Learn more on our guide.
OneDrive
1 TB free storage for Lone Star College students.
ZoteroBib
Free citation tool that supports MLA, APA, & CMOS (and thousands of others). Use this instead of the full Zotero if you just need some quick citations.

PowerNotes: Clip, Save, Organize

PowerNotes is a research manager that works on anything you can open in your browser. Set up your free account and install the PowerNotes extension.

Save and organize quotes as you research so you've got an outline ready to go. The built-in citation tool can export a bibliography.

Get Started with PowerNotes

PowerNotes Guide
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Learn how to make your account and start using PowerNotes. (Available for LSC-UP students and employees.)

Related Guides

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Requests: How to Get Unavailable Articles & Books
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Journals & Periodicals: Identifying Scholarly Sources
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Citations: APA Style
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Methodology

Rhetorical Methodologies
Finding a Methodology for Rhetorical Criticism
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Link goes to entire journal: this article is the first one you'll see.

Assignment | Rhetorical Criticism Project (Whalen): Getting Started