The COMM 142 Final Examination will be at the scheduled time and place: Wednesday May 19th from 11-1 in SA-26.  The examination format is essay, so please bring a pen and a blue book or two. Each student will write three 40-minute essays.

The questions will cover these areas:

Textual Criticism
Narratives and Stories as Arguments
Ideological Criticism
Rhetoric & Criticism of Social Movements
Contemporary Criticism

In each essay, you will be expected to write effective essays displaying your erudition and understanding.

Examination of historical and contemporary communication events using principles of critical evaluation from rhetorical, artistic, and media perspectives. Written papers and presentations of analyses utilizing critical principles from these perspectives.

Sellnow, Deanna D. The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture. Los Angeles: Sage, 2010.

Hacker, Diana.  A Pocket Style Manual.  5^th ed.  Boston:  Bedford/St. Martins, 2008.

Plan to make extensive use of the University Library and the Internet in research. To facilitate your inquiry, you might begin with a webpage with some research points of departure.

PowerPoint Slides on Writing and Scholarly Style,
as well as a few tips for finding research articles (text) online

Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online  
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
http://dianahacker.com/pocket/

Links as needed

A few links on Martin Luther King:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm
http://www.afscme.org/about/kingspch.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther_king
http://www.mlkonline.net/video-been-to-the-mountaintop-speech2.html

A few preliminary links on Amos & Andy:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0043175/combined
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/amosnandy/amosnandy.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy