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.

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