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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What's Inquiry? | |
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| Why Inquiry; Why Composing? | |
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| Literacy | |
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| Reading and Writing Together | |
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| Strategies for Active Reading | |
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| Posing Questions | |
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| Using This Book | |
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| Inquiry and the Internet | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | |
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| Presenting Inquiry: Rhetorical Choices and Writing Issues | |
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| What Does Audience Have to Do With It? | |
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| Discourse Communities and Genre Expectations | |
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| Framing Your Work | |
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| Developing an Argument Through Analysis | |
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| Including the Work of Others: Paraphrases, Quotations, Citations | |
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| Arrangement | |
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| Foregrounding | |
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| Headings | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Clarity and Style | |
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| Sentence Length | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| An Eye Toward Revision | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | |
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| Observing | |
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| Special Materials: Visuals | |
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| Special Materials: Artifacts | |
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| Ethical Considerations in Observing | |
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| Working on Writing Observations | |
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| Summary Descriptions to Generalizations | |
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| Vivid Details versus "Objective" Language | |
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| Student Essay: Observation of a Place | |
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| "The Fields of Dreams" Hattie Wellington | |
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| Student Essay: Visual Analysis | |
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| "Web Pages in the Automobile Industry" Christopher Perin | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Web Sites Referenced in This Chapter | |
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| Links to the Readings | |
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| Assignments Using Observation | |
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| Assignments Working with Visual Materials | |
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| Assignments Working with Artifacts | |
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| Interviewing | |
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| Ethical Considerations and the 4 C's of Responsible Interviewing | |
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| Staging the Interview | |
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| Thematizing: Crafting Two Kinds of Questions | |
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| Designing: Practical Matters | |
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| Interviewing: Semi-Structured Conversation | |
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| Transcribing: From Oral to Written Form | |
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| Analyzing: Paying Critical Attention | |
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| Verifying: Evaluating Your Findings | |
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| Reporting: Shaping for Audiences | |
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| Special Case: Focus Groups | |
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| Special Case: Oral Histories | |
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| Working on Writing Interviews | |
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| Form of Presentation | |
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| Quotations | |
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| Student Essay: Case Study Interview | |
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| "A Sociolinguistic Interview" Bryan McLucas | |
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| Sociolinguistic Interview Transcript | |
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| Student Essay: Oral History | |
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| "Columbine: A Day to Remember" Samantha Sanderson | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Web Sites Referenced in This Chapter | |
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| Links to the Readings | |
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| Assignments Using Interviewing | |
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| Assignments Working with Focus Groups | |
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| Assignments Working with Oral Histories | |
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| Working with Numbers | |
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| Interpreting Numbers: Some Basics | |
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| Types of Numbers: Raw Numbers, Percentages, Measures of Central Tendency (Mean, Median, and Mode), Rates | |
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| Reading Survey Reports | |
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| Data Analysis | |
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| Data Analysis Example: A Survey of Students Attending Large and Small Schools | |
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| Collecting Your Own Numbers: Surveys | |
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| Steps for Conducting a Survey | |
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| Ethical Considerations | |
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| Working on Writing from Numbers | |
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| Acknowledging Limits | |
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| Incorporating Graphics | |
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| Student Essay: Survey | |
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| "Satisfaction Among First-Year University of Miami Students" Kenny Rosina | |
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| Rosina's Survey | |
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| Rosina's Data Table | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | |
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| Links to the Readings | |
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| Assignments Working with Numbers | |
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| Assignments Working with Surveys | |
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| Working with Texts | |
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| Inquiry into Texts | |
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| Close (or Critical) Reading | |
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| Facets of a Critical Reading | |
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| Special Material: Music and Public Speech | |
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| Special Material: Archives | |
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| Informal Archives | |
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| Library and Institutional Archives | |
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| Ethical Considerations | |
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| Working on Writing from Texts | |
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| Summarizing for Your Own Purposes | |
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| Accuracy in Representing Others | |
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| Balancing Your Words with the Words of Others | |
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| Student Essay: Textual Analysis of Literary Text | |
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| "The Freudian Uncanny in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes" Stephen Fuller | |
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| Student Essay: Analysis of Spoken Language | |
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| "The Effects of Columbine" Samantha Sanderson | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Web Sites Referenced in this Chapter | |
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| Links to the Readings | |
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| Assignments Working with Texts | |
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| Assignments Working with Archives | |
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| Assignments Working with Music and Public Speech | |
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| Sample Projects | |
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| The Water Project | |
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| Local History | |
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| Public Space | |
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| Organizational Needs Assessment | |
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| Internet Resources Referenced in Sample Projects and Assignment Sequences | |
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| Assignment Sequences | |
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| Between Writing and Knowing | |
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| Collective Memory | |
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| Considering "Public" | |
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| Constructing Public Spaces | |
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| Cultural Politics and Public Discourse | |
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| Cultural Politics and Public Discourse II: Shaping Values | |
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| Direct Observation | |
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| Ethnicity in America: Identity | |
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| Ethnicity in America II: Defining America | |
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| Examining Visuals | |
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| Expanding a Trends Report | |
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| Eye on Campus | |
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| Gender Investigations | |
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| Histories: Official and Unofficial | |
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| Humanizing Numbers | |
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| Investigating Artifacts | |
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| Material Culture | |
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| Reading Media | |
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| Reclaiming the Past | |
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| Representing Community | |
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| Trying Out Interviews | |
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| Visual Rhetoric: Photographs | |
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| Working with Texts | |
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| Readings | |
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| "Courage, Endurance and Quickness of Decision: Gender and Athletics at the University of Chicago, 1890-1920" | |
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| "Narrating Cultural Citizenship: Oral Histories of First-Generation College Students of Mexican Origin" | |
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| "Developing a Visual Discourse on Immigration" | |
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| "Handmade by an American Indian": Souvenirs and the Cultural Economy of Southwestern Tourism | |
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| "Representative Form and the Visual Ideograph: The Iwo Jima Images in Editorial Cartoons" | |
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| "American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography" | |
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| "Is This Song Your Song Anymore: Revisioning Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" | |
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| "Forums for Citizenship in Popular Culture" | |
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| "Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation" | |
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| "Representation of Women in News and Photos: Comparing Content to Perceptions" | |
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| "Common Landscapes as Historic Document" | |
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| "Colliding Feminisms: Britney Spears, "Tweens," and the Politics of Reception" | |
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| "The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes" | |
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| "Trends in Literature Participation, 1982-2002" | |
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| "The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction?" | |
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| "Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology" | |
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| "Van Gogh in Alabama, 1936" | |
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| "Remembering the Discovery of the Watergate Tapes" | |
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| "Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning: Athenian Tragic Drama and Supreme Court Opinions" | |
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| "A Bowlful of Tears Revisited: The Full Story of Lee Puey You's Immigration Experience at Angel Island" | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |