Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jun 2020 RSS

Good Intentions Aren’t Enough: Insights from Activity Theory for Linking Service and Learning by Virginia Chappell

Abstract

Insights from activity theory—specifically, David Russell’s synthesis of activity theory with genre theory—suggest ways to understand and ease problems of clashing expectations encountered in professional writing classes that use a client-based assignment model for service-learning. Link to PDF

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2020-06-11
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service learning genre theory multimodality professional writing multilingual writers

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