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Composing A Civic Lifepromotes informed, active citizenship by encouraging the reader to write as a means of inquiry and civic participation.
Contents
Preface1. What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen?Getting Started: Picturing CitizenshipFirst Inquiry: Using Mind Maps to Assess What You Know About CitizenshipContinuing the Inquiry: Dictionary definitionsContinuing the Inquiry: Official documentsU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Request for Naturalization requirementsExcerpts from the U.S. ConstitutionContinuing the Inquiry: Visual MessagesContinuing the Inquiry: Narratives of CitizenshipEva Paus, "Reflections of a New U.S. Citizen" Benjamin Franklin, from Autobiography Ralph Ellison, excerpt from "Prologue" to Invisible ManWriting Your Own Narratives of CitizenshipAssessing the Progress of Our InquiriesProjects for Inquiry and Action2. Critical Literacy: The Skills to Live an Examined LifeGetting Started: Critical Thinking as Examining Life First Inquiry: Critical Reading as Active ConversationThe Declaration of IndependenceSecond Inquiry: Using a Writer's Notebook to Connect Thinking, Reading, and WritingThird Inquiry: Developing Your Writing ProcessConceiving: The Early Stage of WritingClarifying: The Middle Stage of WritingCrafting: The Later Stage of WritingContinuing the Inquiry: Critical Literacy and Citizenship Projects for Inquiry and Action3. Researching: Inquiry as ActionGetting Started: Inquiring in Our CommunitiesUrsula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Second Inquiry: Developing a Research PlanThird Inquiry: Inquiring Effectively Using Research MethodsBecoming Information Literate: Researching Electronic, Print, and Broadcast MediaResearching on the World Wide Web Researching in the LibraryResearching with Broadcast MediaGetting the Lived Experience: Inquiring Through Field ResearchWeaving Together Inquiry and Action in Community-based Service LearningConclusion: Inquiry as ArgumentProjects for Inquiry and Action4. Arguing: Action as InquiryGetting Started: Arguing in Our Communities First Inquiry: What is Arguing to Inquire?Summarizing an ArgumentAnalyzing an ArgumentSusan B. Anthony, "Women's Right to Vote"Black Panthers, "Ten Point Plan"Second Inquiry: Developing an Arguing MindThird Inquiry: Arguing EffectivelyAppealing to EvidenceAppealing to ReasonAppealing to CharacterAppealing to EmotionsAppealing to Visual ArgumentsConclusion: Argument as InquiryProjects for Inquiry and Action5. Writing in Communities: Academic Research and Social ActionGetting Started: Critical Literacy and Civic ParticipationFirst Inquiry: Writing in an Academic CommunityRe-seeing the Research PaperForming a Research QuestionPlanning the Research ProjectUnderstanding the Conversation on Your SubjectWriting the Research PaperCiting and Documenting SourcesResearch Process in Action: One Student's StoryHolly Van De Venter, "Educating the New America"Second Inquiry: Writing in Civic CommunitiesStudent Participation in Public DebateThe Genres of Public DebateProjects for Inquiry and Action 6. The Family as CommunityGetting 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 AmendmentText 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 ActionContinuing the Case Study7. The Higher Education CommunityGetting 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 RightsDavid 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 ActionContinuing the Case Study8. Citizens of the World: The Global CommunityGetting Started: Becoming a Global CitizenPeter 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 ConflictBenjamin R. Barber, "Jihad vs. McWorld" Letters to the EditorSamuel 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 ActionContinuing the Case Study9. Citizens of the Earth: The Planetary CommunityGetting Started: Taking your Ecological FootprintRegina 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 ResponsibilityRachel Carson, from Silent SpringRichard Louv, "Don't Know Much about Natural History: Education as a Barrier to Nature" Steve Chapple, "Eco-Rednecks" Frances Moore Lappe, "An Entry Point"Questions for Inquiry and ActionContinuing the Case Study10. Communities of FaithGetting Started: Observing Worship Practices in Faith CommunitiesAnne 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 MovementRobert 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 PrizeJames Lawson, "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose"Questions for Inquiry and ActionContinuing the Case Study11. Virtual CommunitiesGetting Started: Imagining the World BrainEsther 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 JournalismLev 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 ActionContinuing the Case Study
