Going public : : what writing programs learn from engagement / / edited by Shirley K. Rose, Irwin Weiser.

An important new resource for WPA preparation courses. In Going Public, Rose and Weiser moderate a discussion of the role of the writing program vis-a-vis the engagement movement, the service learning movement, and the current interest in public discourse/civic rhetoric among scholars of rhetoric an...

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (259 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Introduction; 1. Infrastructure Outreach and the Engaged Writing Program; 2. Centering Community Literacy; 3. The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project; 4. The Illusion of Transparency at an HSI; 5. A Hybrid Genre Supports Hybrid Roles in Community-UniversityCollaboration; 6. Apprenticing Civic and Political Engagement in the First Year Writing Program; 7. Wearing Multiple Hats; 8. Students, Faculty and "Sustainable" WPA Work; 9. The Writing Center as Site for Engagement; 10. Not Politics as Usual; 11. Coming Down from the Ivory Tower; 12. The WPA as Activist
  • 13. Writing Program Administration and Community Engagement: A Bibliographic EssayAbout the Authors