Composing a Civic Life: A Rhetoric and Readings for Inquiry and Action, 2/E
ISBN-10: 0321413598
ISBN-13: 9780321413598
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
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Published: 03/30/2006
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Composing A Civic Life promotes informed, active citizenship by encouraging students to write as a means of inquiry and civic participation.
Based on the premise that the writing classroom is an ideal place for cultivating a healthy civic life, this rhetoric/reader addresses the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills that are central to both academic success and democratic participation. Promoting the “examined life” as an ideal that brings inquiry and action together, this text aims to help students to be better citizens of all their communities, not just in their knowledge, but in their ability to think critically, write effectively, and live wisely.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen?
Getting Started: Picturing Citizenship
First Inquiry: Using Mind Maps to Assess What You Know About Citizenship
Continuing the Inquiry: Dictionary definitions
Continuing the Inquiry: Official documents
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Request for Naturalization requirements
Excerpts from the U.S. Constitution
Continuing the Inquiry: Visual Messages
Continuing the Inquiry: Narratives of Citizenship
Eva Paus, “Reflections of a New U.S. Citizen”
Benjamin Franklin, from Autobiography
Ralph Ellison, excerpt from "Prologue" to Invisible Man
Writing Your Own Narratives of Citizenship
Assessing the Progress of Our Inquiries
Projects for Inquiry and Action
2. Critical Literacy: The Skills to Live an Examined Life
Getting Started: Critical Thinking as Examining Life
First Inquiry: Critical Reading as Active Conversation
The Declaration of Independence
Second Inquiry: Using a Writer’s Notebook to Connect Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Third Inquiry: Developing Your Writing Process
Conceiving: The Early Stage of Writing
Clarifying: The Middle Stage of Writing
Crafting: The Later Stage of Writing
Continuing the Inquiry: Critical Literacy and Citizenship
Projects for Inquiry and Action
3. Researching: Inquiry as Action
Getting Started: Inquiring in Our Communities
Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
Second Inquiry: Developing a Research Plan
Third Inquiry: Inquiring Effectively Using Research Methods
Becoming Information Literate: Researching Electronic, Print, and Broadcast Media
Researching on the World Wide Web
Researching in the Library
Researching with Broadcast Media
Getting the Lived Experience: Inquiring Through Field Research
Weaving Together Inquiry and Action in Community-based Service Learning
Conclusion: Inquiry as Argument
Projects for Inquiry and Action
4. Arguing: Action as Inquiry
Getting Started: Arguing in Our Communities
First Inquiry: What is Arguing to Inquire?
Summarizing an Argument
Analyzing an Argument
Susan B. Anthony, “Women’s Right to Vote”
Black Panthers, “Ten Point Plan”
Second Inquiry: Developing an Arguing Mind
Third Inquiry: Arguing Effectively
Appealing to Evidence
Appealing to Reason
Appealing to Character
Appealing to Emotions
Appealing to Visual Arguments
Conclusion: Argument as Inquiry
Projects for Inquiry and Action
5. Writing in Communities: Academic Research and Social Action
Getting Started: Critical Literacy and Civic Participation
First Inquiry: Writing in an Academic Community
Re-seeing the Research Paper
Forming a Research Question
Planning the Research Project
Understanding the Conversation on Your Subject
Writing the Research Paper
Citing and Documenting Sources
Research Process in Action: One Student’s Story
Holly Van De Venter, “Educating the New America”
Second Inquiry: Writing in Civic Communities
Student Participation in Public Debate
The Genres of Public Debate
Projects for Inquiry and Action
6. The Family as Community
Getting Started: How Do We See the Family?
Mary Pipher, “Beliefs About Families”
Tony Earley, “Somehow Form a Family"
Gigi Kaeser, “Love Makes a Family” (photograph)
Jeff Riedel, “Inward Christian Soldiers” (photograph)
Margaret Talbot, “A Mighty Fortress”
James McBride, “Black Power”
Fatima Mernissi, “Moonlit Nights of Laughter”
Case Study: A More Perfect Union: Defining Family through the Marriage Protection Amendment
Text of the proposed federal Marriage Protection Amendment
Rick Santorum, “The Meaning of Family”
Maggie Gallagher, “What Is Marriage For”
Tom Tomorrow, “A Brief History of Marriage in America” (cartoon)
Jonathan Rauch, “What is Marriage For?”
Barrie Jean Borich, “When I Call Her My Husband”
George Lakoff, “What’s in a Word?”
Questions for Inquiry and Action
Continuing the Case Study
7. The Higher Education Community
Getting Started: Why Are You in College?
Arthur Levine and Jeanette S. Cureton, "Collegiate Life: An Obituary,"
Mark Edmundson, “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students”
Roger H. Garrison, “Why Am I in College?”
bell hooks, “Engaged Pedagogy”
Peter Sacks, “The Sandbox Experiment”
Case Study: Free to Teach, Free to Learn: Academic Freedom and the Academic Bill of Rights
David Horowitz, “Why an Academic Bill of Rights is Necessary”
“Is Your Professor Using The Classroom As A Political Soapbox?” (poster)
"What is Academic Freedom? Is it License for Professors to Engage in Classroom Indoctrination?” (poster)
Stanley Fish, “'Intellectual Diversity': The Trojan Horse of a Dark Design”
Questions for Inquiry and Action
Continuing the Case Study
8. Citizens of the World: The Global Community
Getting Started: Becoming a Global Citizen
Peter Mayer, “Earth Town Square”
Pico Iyer, “The Global Village Finally Arrives”
James L. Watson, “China’s Big Mac Attack”
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, “Decolonising the Mind”
Roz Chast, “One Morning, While Getting Dressed” (cartoon)
Slavenka Drakulic, “On Bad Teeth”
Case Study: “Jihad vs. McWorld”: Seeking a Way of Talking about Civilizations in Conflict
Benjamin R. Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld”
Letters to the Editor
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”
David Brooks, “All Cultures Are Not Equal”
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Christian Wahhabists”
Seyla Benhabib, “Unholy Wars”
Questions for Inquiry and Action
Continuing the Case Study
9. Citizens of the Earth: The Planetary Community
Getting Started: Taking your Ecological Footprint
Regina Austin and Michael Schill, "Activists of Color"
David W. Orr, “Saving Future Generations from Global Warming,”
Bruce Stockler, “Saved by Sequoias”
John Haines, “Snow”
William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much With Us”
Muriel Rukeyser, “St. Roach”
John Clare, “The Badger”
Case Study: Caretakers of the Earth: Comparing Visions of Ecological Responsibility
Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring
Richard Louv, “Don’t Know Much about Natural History: Education as a Barrier to Nature”
Steve Chapple, “Eco-Rednecks”
Frances Moore Lappé, “An Entry Point”
Questions for Inquiry and Action
Continuing the Case Study
10. Communities of Faith
Getting Started: Observing Worship Practices in Faith Communities
Anne Lamott, "Why I Make Sam Go To Church"
Stephen J. Dubner, “Choosing My Religion”
Michael Wolfe, “Islam: The Next American Religion?”
Wendy Kaminer, “The Last Taboo: Why America needs Atheism”Bill McKibben, “The Christian Paradox: How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong”
Case Study: The Role of Faith Communities in the Civil Rights Movement
Robert M. Franklin, "Another Day's Journey: Faith Communities Renewing American Democracy"
Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at Holt Street Baptist Church, Dec. 5, 1955
Bernice Johnson Reagon, interview excerpt from Eyes on the Prize
James Lawson, “Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose”
Questions for Inquiry and Action
Continuing the Case Study
11. Virtual Communities
Getting Started: Imagining the World Brain
Esther Dyson “Communities”
Jeff Dietrich, “Refusing to Hope in a God of Technology”
Jake Mulholland and Adrienne Martin, “Tune Out”
David Shenk “Technorealism: An Overview”
Case Study: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blogosphere: Blogs and the Standards of Professional Journalism
Lev Grossman "Meet Joe Blog: Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? Because they're fast, funny, and totally biased."
“The Blogger Manifesto (Or, Do Weblogs Make the Internet Better or Worse?”)
Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, Luke Swartz, “Why We Blog”
Questions for Inquiry and Action
Continuing the Case Study
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