Required Texts:

McLuhan, Marshall and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.
      New York: Ginko P, 2001.

Williams, Joseph. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.

Unless distributed in class, all other course readings can be viewed and printed out in .pdf format by clicking on the links below and inserting the appropriate password when prompted:

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
     Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 7

Foss, Sonja K. Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice. Prospect Heights. IL: Waveland      P., 1996. The Nature of Rhetorical Criticism/Doing Rhetorical Criticism / Neo-Aristotelian      Criticism / Nixon Analysis / Hussein Analysis.

Goss, Jon. "The 'Magic of the Mall': An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in
     Contemporary Retail Built Environment." Undoing Place. Linda McDowell, ed. New York:
     John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Kingsolver, Barbara. "Creation Stories." and "In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again." High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now or Never. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Maasik, Sonia and Jack Soloman. "Cheap Thrills: The Images of Music, Video, and TV" and      "The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film." Signs of Life in the USA. New York:      Bedford/St. Martin's P, 1996.

Rodriguez, Richard. "Late Victorians." The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology From the
     Classical Era to the Present. Phillip Lopate, ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon and
     Schuster, 1995. Chapter 9 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8

To view .pdf files you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can access by clicking here. For faster printing, I suggest using Netscape Navigator and saving all .pdf files to your hard drive before printing.