Why We Revise

Abstract

Our goal for this special issue was to gathersome of the most experienced teacher-scholars of community-engaged writing and rhetoric and ask them how they tend and refine their courses in order to keep them meaningful, relevant, and sustainable. In a sense we view this volume as a way to maintain the momentum created by such collections as the 1997 Writing the Community edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters, which helped launch the American Association for Higher Education's effort to increase institutional awareness of service-learning through intra- and interdisciplinary scholarship, and the 2000 special issue of Language and Learning Across the Disciplines edited by Ellen Cushman, which emphasizes matters of institutionalization. Both publications pay special attention to the situated practices of educators in long-term programs and partnerships. We extend that discussion with a collection that foregrounds pivotal pedagogical decisions and generative questions.

Journal
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published
2005-09-01
DOI
10.59236/rjv5i1pp3-6
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  1. Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition
  2. Writing in the Real World: Making the Transition from School to Work
  3. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action