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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"community writing"”.
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From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom
… Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom," examines the disconnect that characterizes much of the discussion of reflective writing in community writing studies and argues for the potential of reflexivity as a concept to further …
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“Anyone can be a scientist”: Constructions of expertise and citizenship in citizen science literate activity
… projects in STEM mirrors the “public turn” in writing studies in that citizen science carries many of the same concerns regarding reciprocity and sustainability as service learning or community writing does in writing studies (Mathieu, 2005). By examining citizen science, I aim to build …
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The Rhetoric of Second Chance: The Invention of Ethos For An Ex-Offender
For many, literacy is reading and writing- a critical tool for ethos construction. But for a marginalized group of ex-offenders, former prison inmates, who were not accustomed to reading and writing as an agent for character invention, the ability to employ literacy and to construct ethos was a …
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All Writers Welcome: An Exploratory Study of the Potential Value of Academic Writing Center and Adult Community-Based Literacy Center Partnerships
<p>Writing center practices have been widely accepted as beneficial for literacy development, especially given the ubiquitous nature of writing. However, many off-campus communities lack writing support as visible, organized, and well-documented as that available to those on-campus through writing …
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Joined Up Writers: How can the novel be a vehicle for community participation?
… literature be thought to be a conversation with community?” (AHRC 2017). As well as enquiring into the novel as a potential vehicle for community participation, there are two associated questions: 1. What is the role of the writer-facilitator? 2. What is the effect of introducing digital methods …
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Mauritianism or the mitigated euphoria of the rainbow nation
… that the idyllic Mauritian nation is an imagined community. Writing from an experiential point of view, a Mauritian perspective15, would thence contribute to the understanding and explanation of the 'less euphoric', the actual, the physical, the tangible Mauritian nation, perhaps not in its …
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GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
… both of these practices-multi-text single-focus writing and mixed-genre single-text writing-as queer rhetorical moves with broad applicability. My project focuses on Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, and Alice Walker along with four local activist-writers in Eastern North Carolina, examining …