Rhetoric

Order Description

Readings:

1. NJC: Chs. 1-2

Analysis:

1. What is the historical argument that Alexander is making? What kind of evidence and support does she provide?

2. For your projects this quarter, you will need to choose a topic related to mass incarceration, but one that is much more focused since mass incarceration is too big of a topic and impossible to address adequately in ten weeks. What you will need to do is identify one of the many current problems that is contributing to the larger problem of mass incarceration. As you read chapters 1-2, make a list of specific problems that Alexander mentions, along with page references so that you can locate them. Try to come up with as many as possible and begin identifying which ones seem most interesting to you.