Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What's Inquiry? | p. 1 |
Why Inquiry; Why Composing? | p. 3 |
Literacy | p. 3 |
Reading and Writing Together | p. 6 |
Strategies for Active Reading | p. 6 |
Posing Questions | p. 11 |
Using This Book | p. 16 |
Inquiry and the Internet | p. 18 |
Internet Resources | p. 18 |
Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | p. 19 |
Presenting Inquiry: Rhetorical Choices and Writing Issues | p. 20 |
What Does Audience Have to Do With It? | p. 20 |
Discourse Communities and Genre Expectations | p. 22 |
Framing Your Work | p. 25 |
Developing an Argument Through Analysis | p. 29 |
Including the Work of Others: Paraphrases, Quotations, Citations | p. 31 |
Arrangement | p. 33 |
Foregrounding | p. 33 |
Headings | p. 34 |
Transitions | p. 35 |
Clarity and Style | p. 39 |
Sentence Length | p. 39 |
Word Choice | p. 39 |
An Eye Toward Revision | p. 42 |
Internet Resources | p. 45 |
Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | p. 46 |
Observing | p. 47 |
Special Materials: Visuals | p. 53 |
Special Materials: Artifacts | p. 63 |
Ethical Considerations in Observing | p. 67 |
Working on Writing Observations | p. 69 |
Summary Descriptions to Generalizations | p. 70 |
Vivid Details versus "Objective" Language | p. 72 |
Student Essay: Observation of a Place | p. 74 |
"The Fields of Dreams" Hattie Wellington | p. 75 |
Student Essay: Visual Analysis | p. 78 |
"Web Pages in the Automobile Industry" Christopher Perin | p. 78 |
Internet Resources | p. 82 |
Web Sites Referenced in This Chapter | p. 84 |
Links to the Readings | p. 84 |
Assignments Using Observation | p. 84 |
Assignments Working with Visual Materials | p. 85 |
Assignments Working with Artifacts | p. 85 |
Interviewing | p. 86 |
Ethical Considerations and the 4 C's of Responsible Interviewing | p. 88 |
Staging the Interview | p. 90 |
Thematizing: Crafting Two Kinds of Questions | p. 90 |
Designing: Practical Matters | p. 92 |
Interviewing: Semi-Structured Conversation | p. 95 |
Transcribing: From Oral to Written Form | p. 96 |
Analyzing: Paying Critical Attention | p. 98 |
Verifying: Evaluating Your Findings | p. 98 |
Reporting: Shaping for Audiences | p. 99 |
Special Case: Focus Groups | p. 99 |
Special Case: Oral Histories | p. 101 |
Working on Writing Interviews | p. 102 |
Form of Presentation | p. 102 |
Quotations | p. 103 |
Student Essay: Case Study Interview | p. 106 |
"A Sociolinguistic Interview" Bryan McLucas | p. 106 |
Sociolinguistic Interview Transcript | p. 109 |
Student Essay: Oral History | p. 114 |
"Columbine: A Day to Remember" Samantha Sanderson | p. 114 |
Internet Resources | p. 118 |
Web Sites Referenced in This Chapter | p. 118 |
Links to the Readings | p. 118 |
Assignments Using Interviewing | p. 118 |
Assignments Working with Focus Groups | p. 119 |
Assignments Working with Oral Histories | p. 119 |
Working with Numbers | p. 120 |
Interpreting Numbers: Some Basics | p. 121 |
Types of Numbers: Raw Numbers, Percentages, Measures of Central Tendency (Mean, Median, and Mode), Rates | p. 121 |
Reading Survey Reports | p. 124 |
Data Analysis | p. 130 |
Data Analysis Example: A Survey of Students Attending Large and Small Schools | p. 132 |
Collecting Your Own Numbers: Surveys | p. 136 |
Steps for Conducting a Survey | p. 138 |
Ethical Considerations | p. 144 |
Working on Writing from Numbers | p. 145 |
Acknowledging Limits | p. 146 |
Incorporating Graphics | p. 149 |
Student Essay: Survey | p. 152 |
"Satisfaction Among First-Year University of Miami Students" Kenny Rosina | p. 152 |
Rosina's Survey | p. 156 |
Rosina's Data Table | p. 158 |
Internet Resources | p. 159 |
Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | p. 159 |
Links to the Readings | p. 159 |
Assignments Working with Numbers | p. 159 |
Assignments Working with Surveys | p. 160 |
Working with Texts | p. 161 |
Inquiry into Texts | p. 162 |
Close (or Critical) Reading | p. 166 |
Facets of a Critical Reading | p. 169 |
Special Material: Music and Public Speech | p. 173 |
Special Material: Archives | p. 176 |
Informal Archives | p. 176 |
Library and Institutional Archives | p. 177 |
Ethical Considerations | p. 181 |
Working on Writing from Texts | p. 182 |
Summarizing for Your Own Purposes | p. 182 |
Accuracy in Representing Others | p. 185 |
Balancing Your Words with the Words of Others | p. 190 |
Student Essay: Textual Analysis of Literary Text | p. 192 |
"The Freudian Uncanny in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes" Stephen Fuller | p. 192 |
Student Essay: Analysis of Spoken Language | p. 202 |
"The Effects of Columbine" Samantha Sanderson | p. 202 |
Internet Resources | p. 205 |
Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | p. 205 |
Links to the Readings | p. 206 |
Assignments Working with Texts | p. 206 |
Assignments Working with Archives | p. 207 |
Assignments Working with Music and Public Speech | p. 207 |
Sample Projects | p. 208 |
The Water Project | p. 208 |
Local History | p. 211 |
Public Space | p. 214 |
Organizational Needs Assessment | p. 216 |
Internet Resources Referenced in Sample Projects and Assignment Sequences | p. 220 |
Assignment Sequences | p. 221 |
Between Writing and Knowing | p. 222 |
Collective Memory | p. 226 |
Considering "Public" | p. 231 |
Constructing Public Spaces | p. 235 |
Cultural Politics and Public Discourse | p. 239 |
Cultural Politics and Public Discourse II: Shaping Values | p. 243 |
Direct Observation | p. 247 |
Ethnicity in America: Identity | p. 250 |
Ethnicity in America II: Defining America | p. 253 |
Examining Visuals | p. 255 |
Expanding a Trends Report | p. 260 |
Eye on Campus | p. 265 |
Gender Investigations | p. 269 |
Histories: Official and Unofficial | p. 272 |
Humanizing Numbers | p. 275 |
Investigating Artifacts | p. 279 |
Material Culture | p. 283 |
Reading Media | p. 286 |
Reclaiming the Past | p. 290 |
Representing Community | p. 294 |
Trying Out Interviews | p. 298 |
Visual Rhetoric: Photographs | p. 301 |
Working with Texts | p. 305 |
Readings | |
"Courage, Endurance and Quickness of Decision: Gender and Athletics at the University of Chicago, 1890-1920" | p. 309 |
"Narrating Cultural Citizenship: Oral Histories of First-Generation College Students of Mexican Origin" | p. 326 |
"Developing a Visual Discourse on Immigration" | p. 346 |
"Handmade by an American Indian": Souvenirs and the Cultural Economy of Southwestern Tourism | p. 357 |
"Representative Form and the Visual Ideograph: The Iwo Jima Images in Editorial Cartoons" | p. 369 |
"American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography" | p. 391 |
"Is This Song Your Song Anymore: Revisioning Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" | p. 413 |
"Forums for Citizenship in Popular Culture" | p. 433 |
"Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation" | p. 446 |
"Representation of Women in News and Photos: Comparing Content to Perceptions" | p. 465 |
"Common Landscapes as Historic Document" | p. 479 |
"Colliding Feminisms: Britney Spears, "Tweens," and the Politics of Reception" | p. 494 |
"The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes" | p. 510 |
"Trends in Literature Participation, 1982-2002" | p. 530 |
"The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction?" | p. 541 |
"Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology" | p. 554 |
"Van Gogh in Alabama, 1936" | p. 575 |
"Remembering the Discovery of the Watergate Tapes" | p. 597 |
"Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning: Athenian Tragic Drama and Supreme Court Opinions" | p. 625 |
"A Bowlful of Tears Revisited: The Full Story of Lee Puey You's Immigration Experience at Angel Island" | p. 642 |
Photo Credits | p. 625 |
Index | p. 627 |
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