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Vol. 2 (2006)

Published: May 1, 2006

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Conversation

Societal Duende
May 1, 2006

Anna Iroff
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Looking at War, Fishing for Commitment
May 1, 2006

Jacob Richardson
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What’s Wrong with Movies? My Generation, Cultural Development, and Higher Education
May 1, 2006

Alex Stern
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From Scuffling to Channel-Surfing: American Politics in the Television Age
May 1, 2006

Jude Webre
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Research

Returning to Boston
May 1, 2006

Geoff Aung
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Embracing the Warplane: Romanticism’s Role in the Rise of Air Power
May 1, 2006

David Kohn
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Said’s Post-September 11th Media Presence
May 1, 2006

Jedidiah Micka
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writing

Reaching Beyond the University: Writing the Op-Ed

By Glenn Michael Gordon

Students in University Writing (UW) put a lot of effort and passion into the four essays they write over the course of the semester. They read sophisticated essays and deeply consider the authors’ ideas, pound out a first essay draft full of ideas of their own, revise it several times, workshop it with their peers, and finally, turn in a polished piece. Throughout the process, they hone an argument about a topic that is important—and, not infrequently befuddling—not only to them, but to the larger world. So why should the audience of their final essays be limited to their instructors?

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