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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction Making Writing Matter | p. 1 |
What Is Engaged Scholarship? | p. 2 |
Making Writing Matter for First-Year Students | p. 3 |
Writing for Civic Engagement | p. 5 |
How I Came to Write This Book | p. 7 |
The Organization of This Book | p. 9 |
The Place of Writing in the University | |
Engaged Scholarship at the University | p. 13 |
Changing The Kind of Thing We Do Around Here | p. 15 |
Important Work, But Not University Partnership | p. 19 |
How Discourse Drives Engagement | p. 22 |
The New Learner Writes | p. 29 |
Educating Citizens to Write | p. 32 |
When Students "Walk" the City | p. 36 |
Writing as Participation | p. 41 |
The Purloined Petition | p. 42 |
Institution, Genre, and Social Action | p. 48 |
This Container Isn't Big Enough | p. 53 |
Writing About What Others Have Written | p. 55 |
Writing for Participation | p. 59 |
Revision or Social Action? | p. 65 |
Writing in a Community of Practice | p. 68 |
Telling Tales Out of School | p. 71 |
When Is a Diary Not a Diary? | p. 71 |
Down the Elevator | p. 72 |
Both Ends Against the Middle | p. 74 |
The University in Ruins | p. 77 |
What's a Writing Program For? | p. 79 |
The Mountain Makes It's Own Weather | p. 83 |
Learning to Spell Rescission | p. 86 |
The Grammar Sessions | p. 89 |
Getting What You Wish For | p. 94 |
Reflecting on Experience? | p. 96 |
Designing Instruction to Make Writing Matter | |
Rethinking Reflection in Community-Based Writing | p. 99 |
A New Space for Teaching and Learning | p. 99 |
Tales of Becoming a Writer | p. 103 |
Performing in Writing | p. 105 |
The Memoir and Its Truth or Consequences | p. 107 |
On Not Assigning Literacy Narratives | p. 109 |
Against Reflection | p. 112 |
Recruiting Students for CCLCP | p. 120 |
Developing Community-Based Partnerships | p. 122 |
Designing a First-Year Curriculum for CCLCP | p. 125 |
Recapping the Argument | p. 134 |
Assessing Writing and Learning in Community-Based Courses (with Candice Rai and Megan Marie) | p. 135 |
Entering a New Situation | p. 135 |
Situated Writing and Learning | p. 136 |
Complicating Assessment | p. 147 |
Developing an Assessment Matrix | p. 151 |
Conducting Assessment | p. 155 |
Teaching the Teachers | p. 163 |
Writing About Essays | p. 164 |
The Syllabus as Genre | p. 167 |
Against First-Year Writing | p. 171 |
The Paradox of Transferability | p. 175 |
Designing Situated Writing Projects | p. 177 |
A Manifesto for First-Year Writing | p. 187 |
Notes | p. 195 |
Works Cited | p. 203 |
Index | p. 219 |
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