Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Dec 2004 Open Access

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

Lisa Mastrangelo

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.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2004-12-01
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10.59236/rjv4i1pp42-49
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first-year composition writing pedagogy service learning teacher development gender and writing
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