In our call for submissions for the Reflections’ 20th anniversary issue, we invited shorter considerations about the journal’s impact to be published as a textual roundtable. As is usually the case, we got what we asked for: a number of short pieces that praise, situate, look backward in order to predict going forward, illuminate, and otherwise comment on the journal’s history, contributions to the field, weaknesses, and strengths. Below are several of these commentaries in conversation with one another. Together, they provide a glimpse into the journal’s past and begin to imagine its future.

Review of Who Says? Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community by William DeGenaro, editor University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

Review of Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts by Patrick Dias, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway, and Anthony Paré Mahwah. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999

Tom Deans chairs the CCCC Service-Learning Committee established in 1999. An assistant professor of English at Kansas State University, Deans is the author of Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition (NCTE, in press).