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Unit 2: Making a Persuasive Case
Digital drop box or send via e-mail
Required Reading: Lannon, Chapter 4, Chapter 21; plus online readings
Required Writing: Review a book, movie, or CD for Amazon.com
Discussion Board Participation
Grammar Exercises (optional -- but helpful! Please see below.)
Questions to keep in mind:
What makes a review useful to the reader? How does it get its point across in a few words (of in 200 words or less)? What are the essential elements?
Required Reading
MOVIES (please read a few reviews on Amazon.com)
Garden State (2004, dir. Zach Braff)
The Station Agent (2004, dir. Thomas McCarthy)
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, dir. Michel Gondry)
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998, dir. Tod Williams)
MUSIC CD (please read a few reviews on Amazon.com)
Linkin Park--Hybrid Theory (2000)
Ashlee Simpson--Autobiography (2004)
Hikaru Utada -- Exodus (2004)
Royksopp -- The Understanding (2005)
BOOKS (please read a few reviews on Amazon.com)
Brian Greene, Fabric of the Cosmos (2004)
Kenneth W. Ford, The Quantum World (2004)
Stanley Perkowitz, Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids (2004)
Details for the Required Writing
Please write a review of a movie, music CD, or book that would be suitable for uploading to Amazon.com. It can be on any music CD, movie, or book of your choosing.
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