Writing the Community

Linda Adler-Kassner is a teaching specialist in composition and the writ­ing program codirector at the University of Minnesota-General College, where she regularly teaches service-learning courses. Her interest in the relationship between student and academic literacies has led her to pub­lish articles about service-learning as well as composition and literacy history. In the fall of 1997, she will join the faculty at the University of Michigan-Dearborn as assistant professor of composition and rhetoric. Robert Crooks teaches composition and also literary, film, and communi­cation theory at Bentley College. An associate professor of English, he has incorporated service-learning projects into a number of different courses and has presented a paper on Service-Leaming, Composition, and Cultural Studies at CCCC. Ann Watters is a lecturer in the English department at Stanford University, where she has directed the Program in Writing and Critical Thinking and currently serves as associate director. A member of the Invisible College of educators involved in service-learning, she cofounded Stanford's Community Service Writing Project. She has co-authored and edited five books, including Writing for Change and Guide for Change, two textbooks for college composition courses that integrate service-learning.

• Foreword by Edward Zlotkowski Introduction to this Volume Service-Learning and Composition at the Crossroads by Linda Adler-Kassner, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters Introduction Service-Learning. Help for Higher Education in a New Millennium? by Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Writing Across the Curriculum and Community Service Learning. Correspondences, Cautions, and Futures by Tom Deans Community Service Writing. Problems, Challenges, Questions by Nora Bacon Community Service and Critical Teaching by Bruce Herzberg Rhetoric Made Real. Civic Discourse and Writing Beyond the Curriculum by Paul Heilker Democratic Conversations. Civic Literacy and Service-Learning in the American Grains by David D. Cooper and Laura Julier Partners in Inquiry. A Logic for Community Outreach by Linda Flower Service-Learning. Bridging the Gap Between the Real World and the Composition Classroom by Wade Dorman and Susann Fox Dorman Systems Thinking, Symbiosis, and Service. The Road to Authority for Basic Writers by Rosemary L. Arca Combining the Classroom and the Community. Service-Learning in Composition at Arizona State University by Gay W. Brack and Leanna R. Hall The Write for Your Life Project. Learning to Serve by Serving to Learn by Patricia Lambert Stock and Janet Swenson On Reflection. The Role of Logs and Journals in Service-Learning Courses by Chris M. Anson Annotated Bibliography Community Service and Composition by Nora Bacon and Tom Deans Appendix Program Descriptions List of Contributors