Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)

Chapter 8: Government, Politics, & Social Justice: How Do We Decide What Is Fair?

Catalyst Skills Links

Catalyst 2.0 is a Web-based, collaborative, assisted writing environment designed to help you improve your academic writing and research skills. The links below will help you as you work through the assignments in this chapter.

Visual Rhetoric Tutorial will give you an appreciation for and a basic understanding of the role images and design play in today's society. The tutorial will also provide strategies and hands-on techniques for applying basic principles of design to your own academic writing, whether in print or on the Web.

Writing Tutors guide you through the assignment, planning, drafting, and revising process. You can use these specifically for description, narration, process analysis, comparison/contrast, definition, casual analysis, classification, arguments, informative reports, and other writing modes. These tutors have writing “wizards” to help you step-by-step through your writing process.

Outlining Tutor will help you create fine-tuned outlines.

Writing Samples provide you with examples of informative, interpretive, and argument papers.