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Martha and Rae Ann used texts regarding the #BLM debate when they piloted the course, but other texts addressing a public issue from various perspectives can be used for in-class practice. In another Civic Discourse class not described in this document, Jeff Simmons and his students explored connections between the Black Panthers and today’s #BLM movement, through grassroots publications written in the 1960s. The range of possibilities for this course inquiry are vast! Anchor 2 2
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Twenge, Jean. “Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic?” The Atlantic, 2 Mar 2012, www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/millenials-the-greatest-generation-or- the-most-narcissistic/256638.
Ethics and Bias
Birk, Newman P. and Birk, Genevieve B. “Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language.” Language Awareness: Reading for College Writers, Edited by Paul Escholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark, pp. 347-354. [PDF]
Cushman, Ellen. “The Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 47, no. 1, Feb 1996, pp. 7-28. [PDF]
Henning, Teresa. “Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom.” English Journal vol. 100, no. 6, 2011, pp. 34–40. [PDF]
Kroll Barry. “Arguing about Public Issues: What can we Learn from Practical Ethics?” Rhetoric Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 105-119. [PDF]
Miller, Carolyn R. and Charney, Davida. “Persuasion, Audience and Argument.” Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text, edited by Charles Bazerman, L. Erlbaum Associates, 2008, pp. 583-98. [PDF]
Project Implicit’s Implicit Assumption Tests. Harvard University, https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ Accessed 26 Oct 2017.
Rottenberg, Annette T. and Winchell, Donna Haisty. “Common Logical Fallacies.” Elements of Argument, 10th edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012, pp. 308-18. [PDF]
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