Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy

Donald Lazere is Professor Emeritus at California Polytechnic State University and is the editor of American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives.

• Acknowledgments, Preface to Teachers (and Curious Students), Part I: Preliminaries, Part II: Attaining an Open Mind: Critical Thinking and Argumentative Rhetoric, Part III: Thinking Critically About the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media, Part IV: Deception Detection, Part V: Putting It All Together in a Long Paper, Glossary of Rhetorical and Critical Thinking Terms, Works Cited, Index

"Lazere has given us a thoughtful, beautifully organized, and eminently user-friendly book that enables teachers to [give] their students a way in to some of the most important and contentious public controversies of our time." --Gerald Graff, Professor of English and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago "Don Lazere has produced one of the most intelligent, relevant, and important books in composition studies in the last decade. Give this to every student, adult, and citizen who believes that learning, writing, and democracy mutually inform each other." --Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University "What a smart book! Here is an intelligent rhetoric text that honestly faces the politics of our times. Writing teachers will benefit from the tools Lazere provides and students will benefit by becoming better writers and more informed readers of their society." --Ira Shor, Professor of Education, CUNY Graduate Center "Lazere's [text] is heaven-sent, and will provide a crucial link in the chain of understanding how conflicts are structured and, most important, how they can be rationally addressed-a healthy antidote to the skepticism that has become so pervasive in academic life." --Alan Hausman, Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY