Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2007 Open Access

Writing Across Communities: Deliberation and the Discursive Possibilities of WAC

Michelle Hall Kell

Abstract

This article argues that traditional models of WAC too narrowly privilege academic discourse over other discourses and communities shaping the worlds in which our students live and work. Writing Across Communities represents a shift in paradigm informed by Ecocomposition, New Literacy Studies, and Sociolinguistics. A Writing Across Communities approach to writing program reform foregrounds dimensions of ethnolinguistic diversity and civic engagement in contrast to other models or WAC currently institutionalized across the nation. Writing Across Communities, as a resistance discourse, calls for transdisciplinary dialogue that demystifies the ways we make and use knowledge across communities of practice.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2007-04-01
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10.59236/rjv6i1pp87-108
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discourse analysis writing across the curriculum service learning translingualism literacy studies race and writing
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