Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Your ­Op-Ed Starts Here Part I--A Piece of Your Mind 1. A Citizen Writer's Job Description 2. Ready, Set, ­Op-Ed 3. Finding and Framing a Topic 4. Ten Steps to Publishing Your Opinions Part II--A Citizen Writer's Toolkit 5. Enter the Contrarian 6. Ethos and the Art of Sincerity 7. Writing the Vox Populi 8.

Charting a Course of Action 9. Finding the "I" in "We" 10. The Power of Now Part III--Additional Opinion-Writing Genres 11. Advice Columns 12. Reviews 13. News Analysis 14. Arch Cultural Criticism 15. Commentaries in Defense 16.

Commentaries in Praise 17. Humor and Satire 18. Writing in Opposition 19. Commentaries on Cultural Identity 20. ­First-Person Exposé 21. Immersion Commentary 22. Polemics and Other Points of Contrast 23. Classification Commentaries Part IV--Publishing Citizen Writing 24.

Eight Steps ­Post-Submission 25. A Citizen Writer's Workshop Afterword: And an Exhortation Chapter Notes Selected Bibliography Index.