Making writing matter: composition in the engaged university

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making Writing Matter

What Is Engaged Scholarship?

Making Writing Matter for First-Year Students

Writing for Civic Engagement

How I Came to Write This Book

The Organization of This Book

Part 1. The Place of Writing in the University

Chapter 1. Engaged Scholarship at the University

Changing The Kind of Thing We Do Around Here

Important Work, But Not University Partnership

How Discourse Drives Engagement

The New Learner Writes

Educating Citizens to Write

When Students "Walk" the City

Chapter 2. Writing as Participation

The Purloined Petition

Institution, Genre, and Social Action

This Container Isn't Big Enough

Writing About What Others Have Written

Writing for Participation

Revision or Social Action?

Writing in a Community of Practice

Chapter 3. Telling Tales Out of School

When Is a Diary Not a Diary?

Down the Elevator

Both Ends Against the Middle

The University in Ruins

What's a Writing Program For?

The Mountain Makes It's Own Weather

Learning to Spell Rescission

The Grammar Sessions

Getting What You Wish For

Reflecting on Experience?

Part 2. Designing Instruction to Make Writing Matter

Chapter 4. Rethinking Reflection in Community-Based Writing

A New Space for Teaching and Learning

Tales of Becoming a Writer

Performing in Writing

The Memoir and Its Truth or Consequences

On Not Assigning Literacy Narratives

Against Reflection

Recruiting Students for CCLCP

Developing Community-Based Partnerships

Designing a First-Year Curriculum for CCLCP

Recapping the Argument

Chapter 5. Assessing Writing and Learning in Community-Based Courses (with Candice Rai and Megan Marie)

Entering a New Situation

Situated Writing and Learning

Complicating Assessment

Developing an Assessment Matrix

Conducting Assessment

Chapter 6. Teaching the Teachers

Writing About Essays

The Syllabus as Genre

Against First-Year Writing

The Paradox of Transferability

Designing Situated Writing Projects

A Manifesto for First-Year Writing

Notes

Works Cited

Index