Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2020 Open Access

The Consequences of Engaged Education: Building a Public Case

Linda Flower

Abstract

As the reach of community engaged writing has expanded, it has come to offer a uniquely powerful contribution to a college education, well beyond service. We have the opportunity to make a visible, cross-disciplinary case that embraces this remarkable diversity in a compelling public argument—one that can link vision with new evidence of genuine educational consequences for students. This paper sketches a framework for both articulating that social, ethical, and intellectual contribution and supporting it with theory-driven and data-based evidence of shared, valued outcomes.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2020-04-01
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10.59236/rjv20i1pp52-67
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