“They Want to Tell Their Story”: What Folklorists and Sociologists Can Teach Compositionists about Linking Scholarly Research to Nonacademic Communities by Nathan Shepley

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“They Want to Tell Their Story”: What Folklorists and Sociologists Can Teach Compositionists about Linking Scholarly Research to Nonacademic Communities by Nathan Shepley

Abstract

This paper uses interviews with five publicly engaged, university-employed sociologists or folklorists in Houston to illuminate ways that rhetoric and composition scholars studying composition history can connect our research projects to nonacademic communities near our campuses. Drawing from covenantal ethics, it argues that we stand to re-see our work’s significance if, starting with general education… Continue reading “They Want to Tell Their Story”: What Folklorists and Sociologists Can Teach Compositionists about Linking Scholarly Research to Nonacademic Communities by Nathan Shepley

Journal: Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published: 2019-06-11
Topics: writing pedagogy multilingual writers

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