Composing a Civic Life A Rhetoric and Readings for Inquiry and Action

by Berndt, Michael D.; Muse, Amy M.

• ISBN13: 9780321413598
• ISBN10: 0321413598
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Composing A Civic Lifepromotes informed, active citizenship by encouraging the reader to write as a means of inquiry and civic participation. This text aims to help the reader 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. Citizenship, argumentation, research and community action General Interest; Civic Writing

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen?	1	(45)
Getting Started: Picturing Citizenship	1	(1)
First Inquiry: Using Mind Maps to Assess What You Know About Citizenship	1	(2)
Exercise 1.1 Creating Your Own Mind Map	2	(1)
Second Inquiry: Dictionary Definitions	3	(5)
Exercise 1.2 Comparing Dictionary Definitions	4	(3)
Stop And Think Time to Bring in the College Community?	7	(1)
Third Inquiry: Official Documents	8	(12)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Naturalization Requirements	8	(5)
The U.S. Constitution	13	(7)
Fourth Inquiry: Visual Messages	20	(4)
Fifth Inquiry: Narratives of Citizenship	24	(17)
Eva Paus ``Reflections of a New U.S. Citizen''	25	(2)
Benjamin Franklin from Autobiography	27	(9)
Writing Style Crafting a Persona	36	(1)
Ralph Ellison Prologue from Invisible Man	36	(5)
Writing Style Writing as a Performance Art	41	(1)
Writing Your Own Narrative of Citizenship	41	(1)
Assessing the Progress of Our Inquiries	42	(2)
Projects For Inquiry And Action	44	(2)
Critical Literacy: The Skills to Live an Examined Life	46	(39)
Getting Started: Critical Thinking As Examining Life	46	(3)
First Inquiry: Critical Reading as Active Conversation	49	(7)
The Declaration Of Independence	51	(5)
Second Inquiry: Using a Writer's Notebook to Connect Thinking, Reading, and Writing	56	(4)
Third Inquiry: Developing Your Writing Process	60	(22)
Conceiving: The Early Stage of Writing	64	(1)
Planning: Exploring Your Writing Situation	64	(1)
Prewriting: Generating Ideas	65	(3)
Drafting	68	(5)
Clarifying: The Middle Stage of Writing	73	(2)
Re-seeing: Rethinking Your Premises	75	(1)
Reviewing: Getting Feedback from Readers	76	(2)
Revising: Reshaping Your Work	78	(2)
Crafting: The Later Stage of Writing	80	(1)
Editing	80	(1)
Proofreading	81	(1)
Continuing the Inquiry: Critical Literacy and Citizenship	82	(2)
Projects For Inquiry And Action	84	(1)
Researching: Inquiry as Action	85	(34)
Getting Started: Inquiring In Our Communities	85	(2)
First Inquiry: Using Critical Reading and Writing as a Catalyst for Inquiry	87	(7)
Ursula Le Guin ``The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas''	89	(4)
Exercise 3.1 Writing to Develop an Inquiry	93	(1)
Second Inquiry: Developing a Research Plan	94	(2)
Exercise 3.2 Developing a Research Plan	96	(1)
Third Inquiry: Inquiring Effectively Using Research Methods	96	(19)
Becoming Information Literate: Researching in Electronic, Print, and Broadcast Media	97	(1)
Researching on the World Wide Web	98	(2)
Exercise 3.3 Using the World Wide Web for Research	100	(1)
Exercise 3.4 Finding Articles in Databases	101	(1)
Researching in the Library	101	(2)
Exercise 3.5 Inquiring in Your Library	103	(2)
Stop And Think The Ethics of Online Research	105	(1)
Researching with Broadcast Media	105	(1)
Exercise 3.6 Inquiring in Broadcast Media	106	(1)
Getting the Lived Experience: Inquiring Through Field Research	107	(1)
Observation	108	(1)
Interviewing	109	(2)
Stop And Think Larry King on Asking Questions in Interviews	111	(1)
Surveys	112	(1)
Stop And Think Robert Putnam on Crafting Questions for Surveys	113	(1)
Exercise 3.7 Practicing Field Research Techniques	114	(1)
Stop And Think Ethics of Field Research	115	(1)
Weaving Together Inquiry and Action in Community-based Service Learning	115	(2)
Exercise 3.8 Examining Our Motives	117	(1)
Conclusion: Inquiry as Argument	117	(1)
Projects For Inquiry And Action	118	(1)
Arguing: Action as Inquiry	119	(37)
Getting Started: Arguing In Our Communities	119	(2)
First Inquiry: What Is Arguing to Inquire?	121	(11)
Summarizing an Argument	122	(1)
Analyzing an Argument	123	(1)
Exercise 4.1 Critically Responding to the Declaration of Independence	124	(1)
Susan B. Anthony ``Women's Right to Vote''	125	(5)
The Black Panthers ``Ten Point Plan''	130	(2)
Second Inquiry: Developing an Arguing Mind	132	(5)
Exercise 4.2 The Principles of Civil Arguing	133	(1)
Stop And Think Deborah Tannen and the Argument Culture	134	(1)
Exercise 4.3 Assessing Opportunities to Argue	135	(2)
Exercise 4.4 Framing Our Arguments	137	(1)
Third Inquiry: Arguing Effectively	137	(18)
Exercise 4.5 Discovering Types of Appeals	138	(1)
Appealing to Evidence	139	(1)
Exercise 4.6 Assessing Appeals to Evidence	140	(2)
Appealing to Reason	142	(2)
Exercise 4.7 Assessing Appeals to Reason	144	(4)
Stop And Think Michael Shermer and Skepticism	148	(1)
Appealing to Character	149	(1)
Exercise 4.8 Assessing Appeals to Character	149	(1)
Appealing to Emotions	150	(1)
Exercise 4.9 Assessing Appeals to Emotions	151	(2)
Appealing to Visual Arguments	153	(1)
Exercise 4.10 Creating Visual Arguments: Adbusters	154	(1)
Conclusion: Argument as Inquiry	155	(1)
Projects For Inquiry And Action	155	(1)
Writing in Communities: Academic Research and Social Action	156	(39)
Getting Started: Critical Literacy And Civic Participation	156	(2)
First Inquiry: Writing in an Academic Community	158	(24)
Re-seeing the Research Paper	158	(1)
Exercise 5.1 Comparing Research Papers	159	(2)
Forming a Research Question	161	(2)
Exercise 5.2 Inquiring and Arguing in Academic Communities	163	(1)
Planning the Research Project	164	(1)
Research the Writing Situation	164	(1)
Set the Scope of Your Research	165	(1)
Clarify Your Purpose	165	(1)
Define Your Methods	165	(1)
Set Your Schedule	166	(1)
Exercise 5.3 Writing Up Your Research Plan	167	(1)
Understanding the Conversation on Your Subject	167	(1)
Exercise 5.4 Telling the Story of Your Research	168	(1)
Writing the Research Paper	169	(1)
Exercise 5.5 Asking Questions to Revise	170	(1)
Citing and Documenting Sources	170	(2)
Using Other Writers Words and Ideas	172	(1)
Incorporating Sources	172	(1)
Bibliographies and Documentation	173	(2)
Research Process in Action: One Student's Story	175	(1)
Holly Van De Venter ``Educating the New America''	175	(7)
Second Inquiry: Writing in Civic Communities	182	(12)
Student Participation in Public Debate	184	(1)
Exercise 5.6 Noticing Conversations in the Public Sphere	184	(3)
The Genres of Public Debate	187	(1)
News Articles	188	(1)
Editorials and Opinion Pieces	188	(1)
Letters to the Editor	189	(1)
Letters to Public Officials	190	(1)
Pamphlets and Posters	191	(1)
The Internet: Web Sites and Blogs	192	(1)
The Internet: E-mail, Chat Rooms, and Electronic Mailing Lists	193	(1)
Zines	194	(1)
Projects For Inquiry And Action	194	(1)
The Family as Community	195	(79)
Getting Started: How Do We See The Family?	195	(45)
Mary Pipher ``Beliefs About Families''	198	(4)
Tony Earley ``Somehow Form a Family''	202	(8)
Writing Style Showing, Not Telling	210	(1)
Gigi Kaeser ``Love Makes a Family'' (photograph)	211	(1)
Jeff Riedel ``Inward Christian Soldiers'' (photograph)	212	(1)
Margaret Talbot ``A Mighty Fortress''	213	(15)
James McBride ``Black Power''	228	(7)
Fatima Mernissi ``Moonlit Nights of Laughter''	235	(5)
Case Study A More Perfect Union: Defining Family through the Marriage Protection Amendment	240	(31)
Marriage Protection Amendment	240	(1)
Rick Santorum ``The Meaning of Family''	240	(7)
Maggie Gallagher ``What Marriage Is For''	247	(5)
Writing Style Creating a Pamphlet	252	(2)
Tom Tomorrow ``A Brief History of Marriage in America'' (cartoon)	254	(1)
Jonathan Rauch ``What Is Marriage For?''	255	(10)
Barrie Jean Borich ``When I Call Her My Husband''	265	(4)
George Lakoff ``What's in a Word?''	269	(2)
Questions For Inquiry And Action	271	(1)
Continuing The Case Study: Should Congress Define The American Family?	272	(2)
The Higher Education Community	274	(59)
Getting Started: Exploring Your Campus	274	(46)
Arthur Levine and Jeanette S. Cureton ``Collegiate Life: An Obituary''	276	(8)
Roger H. Garrison ``Why Am I in College?''	284	(8)
Mark Edmundson ``On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students''	292	(13)
Stop And Think The Consumer Model for Universities	305	(1)
Bell Hooks ``Engaged Pedagogy''	306	(6)
Peter Sacks ``The Sandbox Experiment''	312	(8)
Case Study Free to Teach, Free to Learn: Academic Freedom and the Academic Bill of Rights	320	(10)
David Horowitz ``Why an Academic Bill of Rights Is Necessary''	320	(5)
``Is Your Professor Using the Classroom as a Political Soapbox?'' (poster)	325	(1)
``What Is Academic Freedom? Is It a License for Professors to Engage in Classroom Indoctrination?'' (poster)	326	(1)
Stanley Fish ``'Intellectual Diversity': the Trojan Horse of a Dark Design''	326	(4)
Questions For Inquiry And Action	330	(1)
Continuing The Case Study: How Do Colleges Enforce A Civil Community?	331	(2)
Citizens of the World: The Global Community	333	(77)
Getting Started: Becoming A Global Citizen	333	(33)
Peter Mayer ``Earth Town Square''	336	(1)
Pico Iyer ``The Global Village Finally Arrives''	337	(4)
James L. Watson ``China's Big Mac Attack''	341	(10)
Stop And Think The Olympic Games	351	(1)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ``Decolonising the Mind''	352	(6)
Roz Chast ``One Morning, While Getting Dressed'' (cartoon)	358	(2)
Slavenka Drakulic ``On Bad Teeth''	360	(6)
Case Study Jihad vs. McWorld: Seeking a Way of Talking About Civilizations in Conflict	366	(42)
Benjamin R. Barber ``Jihad vs. McWorld''	366	(10)
Letters to the Editor	376	(1)
Writing Style Writing Letters to the Editor	377	(2)
Samuel P. Huntington from ``The Clash of Civilizations?''	379	(12)
David Brooks ``All Cultures Are Not Equal''	391	(2)
Writing Style Writing Editorials and Opinion Pieces	393	(1)
Barbara Ehrenreich ``Christian Wahhabists''	394	(2)
Seyla Benhabib ``Unholy Wars''	396	(12)
Questions For Inquiry And Action	408	(1)
Continuing The Case Study: Why Are Women At The Center Of The Clash Of Civilizations?	408	(2)
Citizens of the Earth: The Planetary Community	410	(52)
Getting Started: Taking Your Ecological Footprint	410	(26)
Regina Austin And Michael Schill ``Activists of Color''	412	(8)
David W. Orr ``Saving Future Generations from Global Warming''	420	(3)
Writing Style The Problem/Solution Essay	423	(1)
John Haines ``Snow''	424	(2)
Bruce Stockler ``Saved by Sequoias''	426	(5)
William Wordsworth ``The World is Too Much With Us''	431	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser ``St. Roach''	432	(1)
John Clare ``The Badger''	433	(2)
Stop And Think The Value of Poetry to Civic Dialogues	435	(1)
Case Study Caretakers of the Earth: Comparing Visions of Ecological Responsibility	436	(23)
Rachel Carson from Silent Spring	436	(6)
Stop And Think How Do You See Nature?	442	(2)
Richard Louv ``Don't Know Much about Natural History: Education as a Barrier to Nature''	444	(8)
Steve Chapple ``Eco-Rednecks''	452	(2)
Frances Moore Lappe from Diet for a Small Planet	454	(5)
Questions For Inquiry And Action	459	(1)
Continuing The Case Study: How Lightly Do You Walk The Earth?	459	(3)
Communities of Faith	462	(63)
Getting Started: Observing Worship Practices In Faith Communities	462	(44)
Anne Lamott ``Why I Make Sam Go To Church''	464	(3)
Stop And Think House Churches: Designing Your Own Worship	467	(1)
Stephen J. Dubner ``Choosing My Religion''	468	(16)
Michael Wolfe ``Islam: the Next American Religion?''	484	(3)
Stop And Think What's Your Spiritual Community?	487	(2)
Wendy Kaminer ``The Last Taboo: Why America Needs Atheism''	489	(8)
Bill Mckibben ``The Christian Paradox: How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong''	497	(9)
Case Study Living Out the Dream: The Black Church and the Civil Rights Movement	506	(13)
Robert M. Franklin ``Another Day's Journey: Faith Communities Renewing American Democracy''	506	(8)
Martin Luther King, Jr. ``Speech at Holt Street Baptist Church, Dec. 5, 1955''	514	(2)
Bernice Johnson Reagon Interview	516	(2)
James Lawson ``Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose''	518	(1)
Questions For Inquiry And Action	519	(3)
Writing Style Public Letters	520	(2)
Continuing The Case Study: Where Do We Go From Here: How Do Social Change Movements Work?	522	(3)
Virtual Communities	525	(44)
Getting Started: H. G. Wells And The World Brain	525	(26)
Esther Dyson ``Communities''	527	(10)
Jeff Dietrich ``Refusing to Hope in a God of Technology''	537	(3)
Stop And Think 78 Questions: A Guide to Living with Technology	540	(2)
Jake Mulholland And Adrienne Martin ``Tune Out''	542	(5)
David Shenk ``Technorealism: An Overview''	547	(4)
Case Study A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blogosphere: Blogs and the Standards of Professional Journalism	551	(16)
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.''	551	(4)
Writing Style Writing a News Article	555	(1)
``The Blogger Manifesto (Or, Do Weblogs Make the Internet Better or Worse?)''	556	(3)
Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, Luke Swartz ``Why We Blog''	559	(8)
Questions For Inquiry And Action	567	(1)
Continuing The Case Study: Can Blogs Uphold The Standards Of Good Journalism, And Should They?	568	(1)
Credits	569	(4)
Index	573