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Providing Context: Service Learning in a Community College Composition Class

Author:

Wendy Rihner

Publication Date:

2007

Publisher:

Delgado Community College

Pages:

(Grantee Produced Resource)

Abstract:

This essay explores and describes how a community college English composition class wrote a persuasive proposal, urging local politicians to support and fund Louisiana's bid to join the National Audubon Society's Important Bird Areas Program (IBA), a state-by-state bird habitat conservation plan.

Full Text Link:

http://www.servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/8555_providing_context.pdf

Call Number:

150/B/RIH/2007

Sector:

HE Sector

Electronic Availability:

Available online

Library Item Type:

Electronic resource - book/monograph

Area of Service:

Animal Welfare

Demographics & Settings:

Higher Education

Demographics & Settings:

Community College

Subject / Discipline:

Composition & Rhetoric

Subject / Discipline:

Language Arts/English