Service-Learning and Writing: Paving the Way for Literacy(ies) through Community Engagement
Table of contents
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˜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
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˜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
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