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Studies in writing, 1572-6304 ; 26 |
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Studies in writing ;
v. 26.
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Subject |
Authorship -- Study and teaching.
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Service learning.
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Literacy.
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Alt Name |
Baca, Isabel, 1965-
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Add Title |
Service-learning and writing : paving the way for literacies through community engagement |
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Service-learning and writing : paving the way for literacy through community engagement |
Description |
1 online resource (XXVI, 271 pages :) : illustrations. |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Service-Learning and Writing: Paving the Way for Literacy(Ies) Through Community Engagement; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction -- Service-Learning: Engaging Writers with Their Communities; 1. Bridging Classroom and Community: An Approach to Doing Service-Learning in the Writing Classroom; 2. Community and Client Partnerships for Students Writing About Science: Exploiting a Situated Rhetorical Context; 3. Team Writing for the Community: Literacies Developed in a Service-Learning Context. |
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4. Why Are You Making Me Do This? An Examination of Student Attitudes Toward Writing with the Community Service-Learning Projects5. Writing While Participating: Incorporating Ethnography in Service-Learning Across the Curriculum; 6. Service-Learning with Transnational Students in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study on the U.S.-México Border; 7. Finding a Shared Path: Journal Writing, Reciprocity, and International Service-Learning; 8. Composing Cognition: The Role of Written Reflections in Service-Learning; 9. Assessing Adaptive Transfer in Community-Based Writing. |
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10. The ''New Discourse City'' of Older Writers: Aging and Disability as Assets to Collaborative LearningAfterword: Community Writing Pedagogies in the Spirit of the New Mestiza; References; Author Index; Subject Index; List of Volumes. |
Summary |
Demonstrates how writing instruction and/or writing practice can complement community engagement and outreach at local, national, and international contexts. This title discusses service-learning as a teaching and learning method and its integration with writing. |
ISBN |
9789004248472 (electronic bk.) |
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9004248471 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781902653 |
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1781902658 |
OCLC # |
866578871 |
Additional Format |
Print version: Service-learning and writing : paving the way for literacy(ies) through community engagement. Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2012 Studies in writing ; 26 1572-6304 9781781902653 (DLC) 17521805 |
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