Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2000 Open Access

Community-Based Writing Instruction and the First-Year Experience

Mary Vermillion

Abstract

This essay describes a series of assignments that I have used in Writing and Social Issues, a first-year writing course that features service-learning. These assignments should prove useful to those interested in the relationship between community-based writing instruction and first-year courses that focus on the student’s transition from high school to college.

Journal
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2000-04-01
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10.59236/rjv1i1pp5-9
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first-year composition writing pedagogy service learning community literacy
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