College Composition and Communication Sep 2022

Theorizing Writing Differently: How Community-Engaged Projects in First-Year Composition Shape Students’ Writing Theories and Strategies

Heather Lindenman

Abstract

Based on a qualitative case study of students’ “theory of writing” essays, this study examines ways that first-year students’ community engagement experiences solidify and disrupt their writing knowledge, beliefs, and practices. Analysis of student writing demonstrates how different community-engaged writing projects inform first-year students’ writing theories and strategies.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2022-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202232121
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition service learning qualitative research community literacy

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (0)

No articles in this index cite this work.

Cites in this index (11)

  1. Goodwin (2020)
    Embodied Subjectivities and the City: Intervening in Local Public Debates throu…
    College Composition and Communication
  2. Driscoll et al. (2020)
    Genre Knowledge and Writing Development: Results From the Writing Transfer Project
    Written Communication
  3. Inoue (2019)
    2019 CCCC Chair’s Address: How Do We Language So People Stop Killing Each Other…
    College Composition and Communication
  4. Yancey et al. (2019)
    The Teaching for Transfer Curriculum: The Role of Concurrent Transfer and Insid…
    College Composition and Communication
  5. Dryer (2019)
    Divided by Primes: Competing Meanings among Writing Studies’ Keywords
    College English
Show all 11 →
  1. Shah (2018)
    The Courage of Community Members: Community Perspectives of Engaged Pedagogies
    College Composition and Communication
  2. Lindenman et al. (2018)
    Revision and Reflection: A Study of (Dis)Connections between Writing Knowledge …
    College Composition and Communication
  3. Hea et al. (2016)
    Silent Partners: Developing a Critical Understanding of Community Partners in T…
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  4. Grobman (2015)
    (Re)Writing Local Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Histories: Negotiating Shared Me…
    College English
  5. Reiff et al. (2011)
    Tracing Discursive Resources: How Students Use Prior Genre Knowledge to Negotia…
    Written Communication
  6. Goldblatt (2005)
    Alinsky's Reveille: A Community-Organizing Model for Neighborhood-Based Literac…
    College English
Also cites 2 works outside this index ↓
  1. (2008)
    Service Learning in a Basic Writing Class: A Best Case Scenario
    Journal of Basic Writing  ↗
  2. (2014)
    Knowing What We Know about Writing in the Disciplines: A New Approach to Teaching for Tra…
    WAC Journal  ↗
CrossRef global citation count: 0 View in citation network →

Related Articles

  1. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jul 2020
    Surprised By Service: Creating Connections Through Community-Based Writing by Linda Cullum ↗
    first-year composition service learning multilingual writers community literacy
  2. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jun 2020
    Community-Based Writing Instruction and the First-Year Experience by Mary Vermillion ↗
    first-year composition writing pedagogy service learning multilingual writers community literacy
  3. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jun 2019
    Inception to Implementation: Feminist Community Engagement via Service-Learning by Johanna Phelps-Hillen ↗
    service learning qualitative research multilingual writers community literacy
  4. Pedagogy Oct 2025
    Remixing the College Essay ↗
    Felisa Baynes-Ross; Caitlin Cawley; Caroline Hagood; Mira Zaman
    first-year composition two-year college qualitative research multimodality race and writing multilingual writers
  5. Composition Forum Apr 2025
    Troubling Teaching for Transfer: Turning (Again) to Rhetoric and Process ↗
    first-year composition qualitative research multilingual writers