Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Composition

The first volume in AAHE and Campus Compact’s series on service-learning in the disciplines, the book discusses the microrevolution in college-level Composition through service-learning. The essays in this volume show why service-learning and communication are a natural pairing and give a background on the relationship between service-learning and communication with maps to suggest where it should go in the future. Chapters include: 

• Service-Learning and Composition at the Crossroads by Linda Addler-Kassner, Robert Crooks, and Ann Walters
• Service Learning: Help for Higher Education in a New Millennium? by Lillian Bridwell-Bowles
• Writing Across the Curriculum and Community Service Learning: Correspondences, Cautions, and Futures by Tom Deans
• Community Service Writing: Problems, Challenges, Questions by Nora Bacon
• Community Service and Critical Teaching by Bruce Herzberg
• Rhetoric Made Real: Civic Discourse and Writing Beyond the Curriculum by Paul Heilker
• Democratic Conversations: Civic Literacy and Service Learning in the American Grains by David D. Cooper and Laura Julier
• Partners in Inquiry: A Logic for Community Outreach by Linda Flower
• Service Learning: Bridging the Gap Between the Real World and the Composition Classroom by Wade Dorman and Susann Fos Dorman
• Systems Thinking Symbiosis, and Service: The Road to Authority for Basic Writers by Rosemary L. Arca
• Combining the Classroom and the Community: Service Learning in Composition at Arizona State University by Gay W. Brack and Leanna R. Hall
• The Writer for Your Life Project: Learning to Serve by Serving to Learn by Patricia Lambert Stock and Janet Swenson
• On Reflection: The Role of Logs and Journals in Service Learning Courses by Chris M. Anson
• Annotated Bibliography: Community Service and Composition by Nora Bacon and Tom Deans