Service-Learning and Writing: Paving the Way for Literacy(ies) Through Community Engagement -

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Résumé :
Demonstrates how writing instruction and/or writing practice can complement community engagement and outreach at local, national, and international contexts. This title discusses service-learning as a teaching and learning method and its integration with writing.

Sommaire:
List of Contributors; Introduction - Service-Learning: Engaging Writers with Their Communities; Isabel Baca; 1. Bridging Classroom and Community: An Approach to Doing Service-Learning in the Writing Classroom; Adam Webb; 2. Community and Client Partnerships for Students Writing About Science: Exploiting a Situated Rhetorical Context; Kate Kiefer; 3. Team Writing for the Community: Literacies Developed in a Service-Learning Context; Kara Poe Alexander and Beth Powell; 4. Why Are You Making Me Do This? An Examination of Student Attitudes Toward Writing with the Community Service-Learning Projects; Susan Garza; 5. Writing While Participating: Incorporating Ethnography in Service-Learning Across the Curriculum; Guillermina Gina Nu'n dc;ez; 6. Service-Learning with Transnational Students in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study on the U.S.-Me'xico Border; Judith Munter, Erika Mein and Claudia Urista; 7. Finding a Shared Path: Journal Writing, Reciprocity, and International Service-Learning; Rebecca Westrup and Phil Bamber; 8. Composing Cognition: The Role of Written Reflections in Service-Learning; James M. Dubinsky, Marshall Welch and Adrian J. Wurr; 9. Assessing Adaptive Transfer in Community-Based Writing; Michael-John DePalma; 10. The New Discourse City of Older Writers: Aging and Disability as Assets to Collaborative Learning; Suzanne Kesler Rumsey, Ruth E. Ray, Lauren Marshall Bowen and Donora Hillard; Afterword: Community Writing Pedagogies in the Spirit of the New Mestiza; Thomas Deans; References; Author Index; Subject Index; List of Volumes