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Summary Table of Contents

"Composing A Civic Life" promotes 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

Preface

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What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen?

(45)

Getting Started: Picturing Citizenship

(1)

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First Inquiry: Using Mind Maps to Assess What You Know About Citizenship

(2)

Exercise 1.1 Creating Your Own Mind Map

(1)

Second Inquiry: Dictionary Definitions

(5)

Exercise 1.2 Comparing Dictionary Definitions

(3)

Stop And Think Time to Bring in the College Community?

(1)

Third Inquiry: Official Documents

(12)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Naturalization Requirements

(5)

The U.S. Constitution

(7)

Fourth Inquiry: Visual Messages

(4)

Fifth Inquiry: Narratives of Citizenship

(17)

Eva Paus ``Reflections of a New U.S. Citizen''

(2)

Benjamin Franklin from Autobiography

(9)

Writing Style Crafting a Persona

(1)

Ralph Ellison Prologue from Invisible Man

(5)

Writing Style Writing as a Performance Art

(1)

Writing Your Own Narrative of Citizenship

(1)

Assessing the Progress of Our Inquiries

(2)

Projects For Inquiry And Action

(2)

Critical Literacy: The Skills to Live an Examined Life

(39)

Getting Started: Critical Thinking As Examining Life

(3)

First Inquiry: Critical Reading as Active Conversation

(7)

The Declaration Of Independence

(5)

Second Inquiry: Using a Writer's Notebook to Connect Thinking, Reading, and Writing

(4)

Third Inquiry: Developing Your Writing Process

(22)

Conceiving: The Early Stage of Writing

(1)

Planning: Exploring Your Writing Situation

(1)

Prewriting: Generating Ideas

(3)

Drafting

(5)

Clarifying: The Middle Stage of Writing

(2)

Re-seeing: Rethinking Your Premises

(1)

Reviewing: Getting Feedback from Readers

(2)

Revising: Reshaping Your Work

(2)

Crafting: The Later Stage of Writing

(1)

Editing

(1)

Proofreading

(1)

Continuing the Inquiry: Critical Literacy and Citizenship

(2)

Projects For Inquiry And Action

(1)

Researching: Inquiry as Action

(34)

Getting Started: Inquiring In Our Communities

(2)

First Inquiry: Using Critical Reading and Writing as a Catalyst for Inquiry

(7)

Ursula Le Guin ``The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas''

(4)

Exercise 3.1 Writing to Develop an Inquiry

(1)

Second Inquiry: Developing a Research Plan

(2)

Exercise 3.2 Developing a Research Plan

(1)

Third Inquiry: Inquiring Effectively Using Research Methods

(19)

Becoming Information Literate: Researching in Electronic, Print, and Broadcast Media

(1)

Researching on the World Wide Web

(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