Included are links to some of the highlight works from the World of Rhetoric classes.  They are all PDF files, so you will need acrobat reader.

Player Culture

• Athletes and Video Games: Is There a Correlation? By Parker Wiseman
• The Effects of WoW on First Time Players in WRIT 1133 by Cliff Smith & Tyler Morton
• The Effects of the World of Warcraft Play on GPA by Chris Fukami, Grant Garceau & Ellen Jung
• Lost Within a Parallel World: World of Warcraft, the most addicting massive multiplayer online role-playing game? by Ben Henderson
• No Really, What’s in a Name? by Devin Tankersley
• Relationship between WOW and Leisure Time by Cliff Smith
• World of Warcraft: Fun or Hard Work? by Ben Henderson
• Motivations for Gameplay by Ben Henderson & Alex Santistevan

Game Culture

• A Brave New World: Allusions and Popular Culture References in the World of Warcraft by Keanan Cypher, Tyler Martin & Max Rose
• An Inconvenient Truth in the World…of Warcraft: Spare some gold? by Kevin Chavez
• Druid Lore and Culture by Samantha Azarow           
• GANKSTAS: A Brief Survey of Grief Play in World of Warcraft by Devin Tankersley, Mark Fleming & Nate Putnam
• Living, Charming, Epic: The World of Warcraft Aesthetic by Damon Chandler
• Religion and World of Warcraft by Greg Brunk, Kevin Chaves, & Parker Wiseman

Game Analysis

• Horde vs. Alliance in PvP by Greg Bunk
• How Total and Average Healing Determine the Victor in Alterac Valley by Andrew Haman
• Leveling Zones by Cord Eddy & Samantha Azarow
• PvP vs. PvE by Nate Putnam
• Real World of Warcraft Economics by Christopher Stjernholm & Jordan Beaudoin
• The Economics of World of Warcraft by Nate Pearson and Beau Burrows