Quest reading the world and arguing for change - Stallings, Kim. (Upper Saddle River, N.J. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007)
Pre-Quest: A Map and a Compass -- Part One: Reading Critically and Responding Thoughtfully: Establishing a Context -- Multimedia Reading Strategies: Exploring an Event -- Reading and Writing to Form an Opinion: Examining the Blame Game -- Part Two: Finding and Analyzing Sources: Becoming an Expert -- Strategies for Gathering Credible Resources: Understanding Historical Context -- Identifying Claims and Reasons: Recognizing Multiple Perspectives -- Logical Reasoning, Fallacies, and Credible Evidence: Analyzing and Evaluating Arguments -- Part Three: Joining the Official Conversation: Creating and Advancing Successful Arguments -- Arguing to Educate: Advancing a Position on an Issue -- Arguing to Instigate Change: Advancing a Call for Action -- Arguing to Create Meaning: Advancing an Interpretation -- Part Four: The Journey So Far -- Reflection in Presentation: Capstone Project -- Part Five: Event Casebooks -- Event Casebook One: The Youth Violence Pandemic -- Event Casebook Two: To Clone or Not to Clone -- Event Casebook Three: What Price, Freedom? -- Event Casebook Four: The Process and Progress of Equality -- Event Casebook Five: Five Second Delay -- Event Casebook Six: All's Fair in War.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc; Social problems -- Problems, exercises, etc; Social change -- Problems, exercises, etc; Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc; Readers -- Social problems; Readers -- Social change; College readers