Overview

Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric and Reader encourages inquiry into community and social action issues, supports community-based research, and shepherds students through a range of service-learning writing projects. Several chapters offer pragmatic advice for crafting personal, reflective, and analytical essays, while service-learning chapters present experience-tested strategies for doing collaborative writing projects at nonprofit agencies, conducting research on pressing social problems, writing proposals that respond to campus and community concerns, and composing oral histories. The assignments help students to see themselves as writers whose work really matters. Provocative readings spark critical reflection on community service and a range of social concerns (including economic justice, literacy, education, homelessness, race, and identity). Focusing on invention, audience analysis, and the social purposes of writing, Writing and Community Action encourages students to adopt a rhetorical frame of mind. Hopeful in tone, this book makes clear the ways that writing can serve as action in both academic and community contexts.

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Author:   Thomas Deans
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780321094803

ISBN 10:   0321094808
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   19 December 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Every chapter contains “Reading Selections. 1. Writing as Social Action. Assignment: Reflections on Your Writing Process. The Writing Process. Reading Selections. Maxine Hairston, “What Happens When People Write?”. Anne Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”. Donald Murray, “The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts”. Writing in School. What is an Essay? Writing about, for, and with the Community. 2. Writing Your Life. Personal Essay Assignment: Autobiographical Reflections Literacy, Ethics, or Service. Exploratory Writing: Mining Your Own History. Reading Selections. bell hooks, “writing autobiography”. Richard O'Konski, “The Monster Under the Bed” (Student Essay). Eileen Montalvo, “Replanting my Roots” (Student Essay). Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna be Average”. Pat McMurtray, “Problem Child 3: My Version” (Student Essay). Alison Garber, “Faith Like Small Children”. Emily Martens, “Traveling Away from Everything Known” (Student Essay). Reading into Writing. Rhetorical Features of the Personal Essay. Narrative Base. Tension, Turn and Resolution. Literary Devices: Description, Setting, Character, Figurative Language. The Peer Workshop: Sharing Drafts with Others. Peer Review Questions. The Revision Plan. The Process Note. Special Section: What is Literacy? Introduction. Paulo Freire, “The Banking Concept of Education”. Sylvia Scribner, “Literacy in Three Metaphors”. Andrea Fishman, “Becoming Literate: A Lesson From the Amish”. Audre Lorde, “Learning to Write”. 3. Exploring Community. Assignment Options: Analyzing a Particular Community and Defining Community. Reading Selections. David L Kirp, “Almost Home: America's Love—Hate Relationship with Community”. Tracy Kidder, “A Moral Place”. Alexis deTocqueville, excerpt from Democracy in America

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