First Year Composition and Women in Prison: Service-bbased Writing and Community Action

Abstract

This article discusses a service-learning project for an English Composition class, focusing on the theme of incarcerated women. Through class projects, which included a book drive and research for the group Prison Watch, the students and teacher learned to negotiate the tricky demands of audience and worked to develop a new model of successful service learning.

Journal
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published
2004-12-01
DOI
10.59236/rjv4i1pp42-49
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