Story of a Community-Based Writing Resource - And a Call to Engage

Ann M Blakeslee; Kristine M. Gatchel; David Boeving; Brent Miller

doi:10.1145/3592367.3592372

Communication Design Quarterly Sep 2023 Open Access

Story of a Community-Based Writing Resource - And a Call to Engage

Ann M Blakeslee ; Kristine M. Gatchel Eastern Michigan University ; David Boeving Eastern Michigan University ; Brent Miller Eastern Michigan University

Abstract

This article tells the story of YpsiWrites, a community writing resource that provides support, resources, and programs for all writers. It shows how ideas from adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy (2017) provide a generative framework for community-engaged initiatives. It uses this framework to examine the work of YpsiWrites, and, in doing so, illustrates the value of the framework for planning, carrying out, and assessing community-engaged work (CEW). The authors share responses to questions they posed to stakeholders, along with themes from those responses, which paint a more nuanced picture of the nature and potential of this work. They conclude with a call to engage and an invitation for others to use these questions as a heuristic in pursuing their own, unique community-engaged work.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2023-09-01
DOI: 10.1145/3592367.3592372
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Topics: community literacy
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