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| A Note to Instructors | |
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| A Note to Students | |
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| The First Day | |
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| The "Plot" of Your Life | |
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| Interviewing a Classmate | |
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| Your Community and an Issue it Faces | |
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| Describing Your Community | |
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| Defining a Community | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: The Communities of San Rafael | |
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| What Issue Concerns You? | |
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| The Power of Anecdotes | |
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| Plagiarism and the Need for Citations | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Granny D | |
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| Comparing News Accounts | |
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| Finding Sources | |
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| Citing Your Sources | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Stephen Glass | |
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| Interviewing a Community Member | |
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| Getting Your Interview | |
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| Quoting and Paraphrasing | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Studs Terkel | |
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| Paper: Describe Your Community and an Issue It Faces | |
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| Writing a Rough Draft | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Sample Paper | |
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| Focus On: Community Gardens | |
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| Peer Reading | |
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| Working With Others | |
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| Peer Reading in 6 Steps | |
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| Peer Reading Worksheet: Paper #1 | |
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| Revising Your Paper | |
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| Revising for Content and Style | |
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| Explaining Thoroughly | |
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| Focus On: Sweatshops | |
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| Media Views of an Issue | |
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| Analyzing Articles on an Issue | |
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| Bias in the Media | |
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| The Politics of Selected Periodicals | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Joey Skaggs | |
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| Comparing Bias in Different Articles | |
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| The Alternative Media | |
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| Signs of Bias | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Noam Chomsky | |
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| Online Representation of an Issue | |
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| Finding Sources Online | |
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| Analyzing Web Sites | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: The Drudge Report | |
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| Interviewing Community Members About the Media | |
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| Arranging an Interview | |
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| Conducting the Interview | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Internet Panics | |
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| Paper: How Is This Issue Portrayed in the Media? | |
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| Organizing the Body of Your Paper | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Sample Paper | |
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| Focus On: Media Watchdogs | |
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| Peer Reading | |
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| Peer Reading Worksheet: Paper #2 | |
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| Revising the Paper | |
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| Varying Your Sources | |
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| Focus On: The Los Angeles Times/Staples Fiasco | |
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| Examining Solutions | |
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| Finding Organizations Associated With This Issue | |
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| Government Sources of Information | |
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| Finding Organizations | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Madelyn Hoffman and Ironbound | |
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| Looking for Publications by Organizations | |
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| Understanding Statistics | |
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| Understanding Charts and Graphs | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Rescue MUNI | |
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| Analyzing How An Issue Affects Other Communities | |
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| Finding Scholarly Articles on Your Topic | |
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| Using Your Own Statistics and Charts | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Grameen Micro-Loans | |
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| Interviewing an Official or Activist About Solutions | |
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| Spin Control | |
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| Finding People to Interview | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Yellow Bikes | |
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| Paper: Describe the Possible Solutions to Your Issue | |
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| Sorting Out Conflicting Claims | |
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| Concluding A Paper | |
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| Sample Paper | |
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| Focus On: Astroturf Lobbying | |
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| Peer Reading | |
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| Peer Reading Worksheet for Paper #3 | |
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| Revising the Paper | |
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| Inclusive Language | |
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| Focus On: Modern Slavery | |
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| Working Toward Solutions | |
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| Listing Out the Pros and Cons of Various Solutions | |
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| Inductive and Deductive Logic | |
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| Making Logical Explanations | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Vita Needle Company | |
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| Arguing for A Solution | |
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| Logical Fallacies | |
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| From Hypothesis to Thesis | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Richard Seed | |
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| Writing a Counterargument | |
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| Fallacious Questioning | |
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| Avoiding Libel | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Helen Steel | |
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| Writing a Rebuttal | |
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| Web Page Basics | |
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| Creating Web Documents | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Supermarket PTA Announcements | |
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| Paper: Explain and Defend a Solution | |
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| Providing Enough Evidence | |
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| Creating a Web Site | |
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| Sample Response | |
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| Focus On: Ariel Gore | |
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| Peer Reading | |
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| Peer Reading Worksheet for Paper #4 | |
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| Revising the Paper | |
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| Revising for Your Own Biases | |
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| Focus On: Patrick Moore | |
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| The Term Paper | |
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| The Final Paper | |
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| Combining Your Work | |
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| Revising Your Web Page | |
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| Sample Final Paper | |
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| Focus On: Dick Falkenbury | |
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| Peer Reading | |
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| Peer Reading Worksheet for the Final Paper | |
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| Revising the Final Paper | |
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| Revising For Appearance | |
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| Focus On: Helen Hill | |
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| The Next Step: Working In the Community | |
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| Focus On: Alexis de Tocqueville | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Using the Freedom of Information Act | |
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| Citing Your Sources in the MLA Format | |
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| Index | |