Service-Learning in First-Year Writing Courses Nora Bacon University of Nebraska at Omaha

Resources

·        Websites

Many service-learning sites offer practical advice to teachers, sample materials, information about grant opportunities, and provocative discussions of experiential learning and the politics of service.  One site leads to others, so the question is where to start.  These sites are comprehensive and easy to navigate:

Campus Compact

www.compact.org

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

www.servicelearning.org

Service-Learning in Composition

www.ncte.org/service

·        Books and journals for teachers

Adler-Kassner, Linda, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters, eds.  Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition.  Washington: AAHE, 1997.

Astin, Alexander, Lori Vogelgesang, Elaine Ikeda, and J.A. Yee.  How Service-Learning Affects Students.  Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.

Deans, Thomas.  Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.

Eyler, Janet and Dwight E. Giles, Jr.  Where’s the Learning in Service-Learning?  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Language and Learning in the Disciplines.  Special Issue on Service-Learning: October, 2000.

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.  Ed. Jeffrey Howard, University of Michigan.

NSEE Quarterly.  Published by the National Society for Experiential Education.  Ed. Linda Goff, Marymount University.

Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. Ed. Barbara Roswell, Goucher College.

The Writing Instructor.  Special Issue on Service-Learning: Winter, 1997.

·        Textbooks

Bowdon, Melody and J. Blake Scott. Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication.  New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2003.

Deans, Thomas.  Writing as Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric with Readings.  New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2003.

Flower, Linda.  Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing in College and Community.  Forth Worth: Harcourt, 1998.

Ross, Carolyn and Ardel Thomas. Writing for Real: A Handbook for Writing in Community Service.  New York: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, 2003.

Watters, Ann and Marjorie Ford, Writing for Change. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

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