Surprised By Service: Creating Connections Through Community-Based Writing

Abstract

This essay explores the many benefits of adding a community-based writing component to the first year composition course. It looks closely at the self-selected projects of 25 freshmen at a large suburban university to show how service-learning creates a context in which students can gain greater control over their own literacy and learn more about self and others.

Journal
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published
2000-09-01
DOI
10.59236/rjv1i2pp5-11
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