Writing and community engagement : a critical sourcebook / edited by Thomas Deans, Barbara Roswell, Adrian J. Wurr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deans, Thomas, 1967-

Roswell, Barbara Sherr, 1959-

Wurr, Adrian J.

Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Service learning--United States.

Service learning.

Social workers' writings.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English language.

Social workers' writings--Study and teaching--United States.

Community and college--United States.

Community and college.

Physical Description:

xii, 547 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2010]

Summary:

"Writing and Community Engagement collects the work of scholars and writers involved in the kind of collaborative learning and community-based writing that takes place beyond the boundaries of the university. Thirty-seven selections discuss both the rhetorical and practical strategies behind community engagement and showcase some of the work produced by writers in university/community partnerships."--Cover.

Contents:

Introduction : Teaching and writing across communities : developing partnerships, publics, and programs

Part I : Writing in communities. Sponsors of literacy / Deborah Brandt ; Kitchen tables and rented rooms : the extracurriculum of composition / Anne Ruggles Gere ; The word on the street : public discourse in a culture of disconnect / Diana George ; The death penalty : deterrent of legalized murder? / Ellis Roberts ; Finding a home for Rick / Heather Bargeron ; Don't you know everybody got issues? / Sandra Gildersleeve Freeman ; Grandma dearest / Chi-An Chang ; Geographies of hope : a study of urban landscapes, digital media, and children's representations of place / Glynda A. Hull and Michael Angelo James

Part II : The terms of service-learning. English studies and public service / Thomas Deans ; The irony of service : charity, project, and social change in service-learning / Keith Morton ; Community service and critical teaching / Bruce Herzberg

Part III : Rhetoric, civic writing, and the public sphere. Rogue cops and health care : what do we want from public writing? / Susan Wells ; Community literacy : a rhetorical model for personal and public inquiry / Lorraine Higgins, Elenore Long, and Linda Flower ; Maybe the reason why / Mark Howard ; From Naming the LD difference / Carnegie Mellon Community Think Tank ; Service learning and social change : the case for materialistic rhetoric / David Coogan

Part IV : The ethics of engagement. The rhetorician as an agent of social change / Ellen Cushman ; "The rheotrician as an agent of social change" in action : online Cherokee Nation educational projects / Cherokee Nation and Michigan State University students ; Service-learning as a path to virtue : the ideal orator in professional communication / James M. Dubinsky ; From Students in the streets / Paula Mathieu ; Ruptura : acknowledging the lost subjects of the service learning story / Tracy Hamler Carrick, Margaret Himley, and Tobi Jacobi ; Alinsky's reveille : a community-organizing model for neighborhood-based literacy projects / Eli Goldblatt

Part V : Writing programs as community engagement. Writing beyond the curriculum : fostering ne collaborations in literacy / Steve Parks and Eli Goldblatt ; A tattoo's story / Jakk G. III ; My decision / Jesùs Villicana Lopez ; Writing across communities : diversity, deliberation, and the discursive possibilities of WAC / Michelle Hall Kells ; When the community writes : re-envisioning the SLCC DiverseCity writing series / Tiffany Rouseculp

Part VI : Tapping the potential of service-learning : guiding principles for redesigning our composition courses / Cheryl Hofstetter Duffy ; Service learning and first-year composition / Brock Haussamen ; Text-based measures of service-learning writing quality / Adrian Wurr ; The trouble with transfer : lessons form a study of community service writing / Nora Bacon ; Shifting locations, genres, and motives : an activity theory analysis of service-learning writing pedagogies / Thomas Deans ; Exploring difference in the service-learning classroom : three teachers write about anger, sexuality, and social justice / Angelique Davi, Michelle Dunlap, and Ann E. Green ; Slipping pages through a razor wire : literacy action projects in jail / Tobi Jacobi ; The dinner table III, The dinner table IV / Carol Pollard ; P tenacious weed, Writing inside / Kimberly Hricko ; Disturbing where we are comfortable : notes behind the walls / Lori Pompa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

ISBN:

9780312562236

0312562233

OCLC:

441147738

Publisher Number:

99970255089