English, Department of
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
January 2003
Citation
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture (2003) 3(1)
Abstract
Review of Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition. By Thomas Deans. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.
Writing Partnerships is a useful resource for teachers and administrators already engaged in conceptualizing how community-writing initiatives might complement and transform their goals for writing classrooms. While it does not offer ready arguments in support of “commonsense” relationships between writing instruction and social action, Deans’s book does provide fertile ground for future conversations about the value and role of community-writing practices in composition studies and in English departments more generally.
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