What Kind of Citizen? Discussion

Least favorite piece from the IS Reader. Period. It started very slow and I just didn't find it the most interesting. There was not a lot of spark at all in the first half of the book. When the examples of Madison County Youth and Bayside Students were incorporated in, however, the basis of the book became a little bit more evident. The fact that the authors decided to extensively discuss the three types of citizens did not help hold my interest as a reader. I felt as if I were reading a very research oriented paper that was bland.

As much as I didn't enjoy the reading itself, the ideas behind the essay and its studies were quite interesting when applied to real-life situations. I think that by simply re-aligning how the book is written, it would become a little bit more reader friendly.