Twenty original, classroom-tested exercises: This innovative guide for conducting college writing assignments explores the practical applications of each lesson. Drawing upon current best practices, each assignment includes discussion of the rationale behind the exercise, along with supplemental elements such as guidelines for evaluation, prewriting exercises and tips for avoiding common pitfalls. Assignments are designed for a range of courses, from first-year composition to upper-division writing in various disciplines.

First aired in 1989, The Simpsons has become America's most beloved animation. It changed the world of television, bringing to the screen a cartoon for adults, a sitcom without a laugh track, an imperfect lower class family, a mixture of high and low comedy and satire for the masses. This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which The Simpsons reflects everyday life through its exploration of gender roles, music, death, food politics, science and religion, anxiety, friendship and more.

While students today have access to more sources of information than ever before, they are not necessarily equipped to make informed judgments about those sources. Teaching students to evaluate sources has become even more challenging in the last year as issues regarding fake news and "alternative facts" have become a heated matter in conversations taking place in the public sphere. The book will present students with a set of tools that they can use to evaluate any source that they encounter. In addition to learning how to use sources in their writing, students who read Who's Your Source? will become more savvy consumers of the sources they encounter in their daily lives. Key Features Uses a simple three-part strategy to evaluate sources: rhetorical appeals, rhetorical situation, and reality check Grounded in rhetorical theory-encourages students to evaluate the soundness of arguments as well as the reliability of sources Incorporates real examples from the authors' experience as instructors-and as scholars