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The Value and Role of Community-Writing Practices

The Value and Role of Community-Writing Practices Reviews Roundtable Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition. By Thomas Deans. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. The Value and Role of Community-Writing Practices Amy Goodburn As I was in the midst of writing this review, a graduate teaching assistant (TA) came to my office to debrief after a conversation with our department chair. The TA was teaching an intermediate composition course with what she described as a “social activist” approach. Throughout the semester her stu- dents had examined relationships among power, language, and identity, writ- ing about their own social locations and reading published texts by social activists. For their final projects these students had chosen to write collabora- tively authored texts, such as editorials, letters, and brochures, that sought to “make a difference” in the university community. They were so enthusiastic about writing these texts, in fact, that they wanted to make them public by set- ting up display booths in the campus union. Because the union requires the endorsement either of departments or of student organizations for such booths, the TA had gone to the chair to describe her students’ goals and to seek approval for their displays. She was upset when the chair http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

The Value and Role of Community-Writing Practices

Goodburn, Amy
Pedagogy , Volume 3 (1) – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Duke University Press
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1531-4200
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Reviews Roundtable Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition. By Thomas Deans. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. The Value and Role of Community-Writing Practices Amy Goodburn As I was in the midst of writing this review, a graduate teaching assistant (TA) came to my office to debrief after a conversation with our department chair. The TA was teaching an intermediate composition course with what she described as a “social activist” approach. Throughout the semester her stu- dents had examined relationships among power, language, and identity, writ- ing about their own social locations and reading published texts by social activists. For their final projects these students had chosen to write collabora- tively authored texts, such as editorials, letters, and brochures, that sought to “make a difference” in the university community. They were so enthusiastic about writing these texts, in fact, that they wanted to make them public by set- ting up display booths in the campus union. Because the union requires the endorsement either of departments or of student organizations for such booths, the TA had gone to the chair to describe her students’ goals and to seek approval for their displays. She was upset when the chair

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Pedagogy – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2003

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