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A rhetoric-reader that presents six scenarios rooted in controversies that dramatize rhetorical issues and engage students in conversations informed by competing points of view.

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• Preface
• A Note to Students
• Part I Student Guidebook
• 1 The Rhetorical Situation and Your Writing Process
• The Rhetorical Situation
• Your Writing Process
• Elements of the Writing Process
• Moving to Chapter Two
• 2 College Writing and Critical Reading
• Public Discourse and Discourse Communities
• The Aims and Types of Writing
• The Power of Rhetorical Appeals
• Rhetorical Strategies
• Reading and Thinking Critically
• A Writer''s Journal
• Moving to Chapter Three
• 3 Incorporating Research into Your Writing Process Research Strategies and Your Rhetorical Purpose
• Primary Research and Secondary Sources
• Evaluating Sources for Bias
• Acknowledging Your Sources
• Integrating Research into Your Writing
• Moving to
• Part II The Scenarios
• What Are Scenarios?
• Why Use Scenarios?
• Working with the Scenario
• Working Together Effectively
• Listening, Speaking, Collaborating
• Looking for Scenarios in Your Own Life
• Getting Started
• 4 Education Today: Who Needs the Classroom, Anyway?
• First Impressions
• The Scenario: The Chancellor Makes an Announcement
• Entering the Scenario: What Makes a College Education?
• Participating within Your Hearthwood Group
• Taking a Position: Writing to the Hearthwood Herald
• Resources: Education.com?
• When I Heard the Learn''d Astronomer
• A Different Course
• The ''Effectiveness'' Debate: What We Know about the Quality of Distance Learning in the U. S.
• Technology: Easy Degrees Proliferate on the Web
• Study Finds Problems with Web Classes
• Digital Dreamer
• How to Proctor from a Distance
• Accrediting On-Line Institutions Diminishes Higher Education
• Virtual Universities Can Meet High Standards
• Taking Action: Writing a Guest Editorial for the Campus Paper
• Speaking Your Piece: Campus Open Forum
• Individual Writing: Essay Options
• 5 Student Privacy: Bad Times at Westwood High First Impressions
• The Scenario: Are Student Rights More Important than Group Safety?
• Entering the Scenario: Dealing with the Crackdown
• Joining and Naming Your Interest Group
• Taking a Position: Writing to the Winterhaven Valley Governing Council
• Resources: How Dangerous Are Our Schools?
• Life in the Classroom
• The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
• School Crime up 25%
• 1 Million School Kids Toting Guns
• U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice, 1999 Annual Report on School Safety
• Growing Intolerant of Zeroes
• New York Times Metropolitan Desk, State Urges Schools to Begin Random Search of Students'' Lockers
• Preventing School Violence: No Easy Answers
• Personalization
• Guards with Guns
• Standing up to Violence
• Taking Action: Your Written Appeal to the Governing Council
• Speaking Your Piece: Presenting Your Ideas to the Council
• Individual Writing: Essay Options
• 6 Guns for Sale: Recycling Your Police Department''s Weapons
• First Impressions
• The Scenario: Selling Guns Is Legal, Isn''t It?
• Entering the Scenario: Your Town as Gun Merchant
• Participating In Your Interest Group
• Taking a Position: Remaining in the Gun-Selling Business?
• Resources: Guns, Cities, and Money
• Cartoon
• Cops Put Guns Back into Circulation
• CNN, Police Re-think Policy of Trading In Their Weapons
• Rockdale''s Sheriff Won''t Sell Off Guns
• Sheriffs Ready to Sell Confiscated Guns
• City Slickers
• Get Rid of the Damned Things
• Gun Rights
• Cold Comfort
• Taking Action: Persuading the City Council
• Asking the Right Questions
• Constructing a Collaborative Text
• Speaking Your Piece: Making an Oral Presentation to the City Council
• Individual Writing: Essay Options
• 7 Suburban Sprawl: The Future of Saguaro Flats
• First Impressions
• The Scenario: The Future Arrives at Saguaro Flats
• Entering the Scenario: Those Were the Good Old Days
• Joining and Naming Your Interest Group
• Taking a Position: Contacting the Board of Supervisors
• Resources: The Sprawling of America
• Prove It: The Costs and Benefits of Sprawl
• A Call to Stop Buying into Sprawl
• McMansion Mania
• Questioning Official Environmentalism
• Taking It to the Streets
• Stressed Out on Growth
• New Neighborhoods Can Combat Urban Sprawl
• Plan Obsolescence
• Divided We Sprawl
• Taking Action: Getting Your Message Across to the Board of Supervisors
• Speaking Your Piece: Saguaro Flats Open Meeting
• Individual Writing: Essay Options
• 8 The Internet: Cyberporn at Your Local Library?
• First Impressions
• The Scenario: What''s Showing on Your Library''s Computer?
• Entering the Scenario: What Can I Look At on That Computer Screen?
• Joining Your Interest Group
• Taking a Position: Writing to the Community Library Oversight Panel
• Resources: Examining Censorship in a Technological Age
• Cartoon
• It''s Not Easy to Push Sex into the Shadows
• San Jose Mercury News Editorial, WWW.oneplace.sex? Internet Porn Would Be Easy to Filter (or Find)
• Parents, Not Legislation, Save Kids from Smut
• Review Follows Ban on Library Internet Filter
• Library Grapples with Internet Freedom
• X- Rated
• Porn May Have a Place, but It''s Not in Class
• @ the Supreme Court
• What Part of "No Law" Don''t You Understand?
• Supreme Court Strikes Down Law on Internet Indecency
• Taking Action: Your Collaborative Statement to the Community Library Oversight Panel
• Speaking Your Piece: Addressing the Community Library Oversight Panel
• Individual Writing: Essay Options
• 9 Living Wills: Decisions about Life and Death First Impressions
• The Scenario: Who Has the 'Right' to Live?
• Entering the Scenario: Who Should Live? Who Decides?
• Participating in Your Group
• Taking a Position: Convincing the Committee for Ethical Decisions
• Resources: Real Lives and Ethical Issues
• PBS-Online, Are Living Wills Honored?
• Maureen West, New Living Will Puts Legal Issues in Plain English
• American Dietetic Association, Position of the American Dietetic Association: Legal and Ethical Issues in Feeding Permanently Unconscious Patients
• Ignoring ''Right to Die'' Directives, Medical Community Is Being Sued
• A Right to Die?
• Rational Non-Interventional Paternalism: Why Doctors Ought to Make Judgments of What Is Best for Their Patients
• The Sanctity of Life: An Analysis of a Concept
• In Place of the Old Ethic
• Taking Action: Your Collaborative Statement to the Committee for Ethical Decisions
• Speaking Your Piece: A Debate before the Committee for Ethical Decisions
• Individual Writing: Essay
• Options In each scenario chapter: For Further Research and Writing Applying What You Read [boxes]
• Questions for Discussion and Writing [for each reading selection]
• Appendix A Preparing a Writer's Portfolio
• Appendix B Extending the Scenarios to Your Community: Service Learning
• Appendix C Documenting Your Sources
• MLA Documentation
• APA Documentation Index