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To make your essay look like one of the essays on nybooks.com, you’ll need the following:

• all the publishing info about your book;
• an image that evokes an important idea within your essay;
• a caption for your image, including whose image it is.

Remember that you’ll also have to include a Works Cited page. The formatting guidelines for those are here, if you’re using MLA. An example of what it looks like is here.

Recently, former student Austin Anderson e-mailed me to say hello, and to let me know about a new blog he started, called The Dauntless Oracle. On it, he writes about a range of topics, but all of them seem to be around the intersection of technology and culture. Those of you who are writing about those might want to go check it out. Nice work, Austin!

For future reference, some questions to ask when you’re beginning a piece of rhetorical analysis.