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Writing Communities is an exciting new text and reader that connects students to neighborhoods and writing courses to communities. Part One introduces students to academic reading and writing skills and prompts them to examine how their communities influence their writing. Part Two then shows students how their academic reading and writing skills can serve as a bridge into working—and producing writing—with the community. The text promotes involvement in and advocacy of social issues such as education, housing, and cultural justice, and assignments provide students with opportunities to put concepts into practice, such as setting up community writing groups, hosting events, and producing publications. A rich variety of readings ranging from personal narratives and poetry to essays and educational scholarship help show students the myriad ways in which writing makes things happen in the world.
The skills students learn from Writing Communities will prepare them for any collaborative work they may take on—in any community they may be a part of—in college and beyond.
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Preface for Instructors A Letter to Students: "The First Assignment" Part One: Reading and Writing Communities 1 Reading Strategies and Intellectual Communities Writing Prompt: "Strange Angels" What is An Intellectual? Becoming an Intellectual Checkpoint: Changing Communities How to Read Like an Intellectual Traditional Reading Strategies Asking Why the Reading Was Assigned Reading for Purpose Reading for Evidence Reading for Audience Note-Taking Strategies Annotating Sample Student Annotations Keeping a Reading Journal Forming a Reading Group Organic Reading Strategies Listening to Everyday Speech Recognizing Community Theories Recognizing Community Insights Recognizing Community Solutions Making Connections Double-Entry Journal Audio Blog Community Archives Sample Student Annotations Rundown: Strategies for Reading Discussion Questions and Activities 2 Academic and Community Discourse Writing Prompt: "Lessons Learned" What is Academic Discourse? Checkpoint: Inventing Discourse Research Communities Academic Everyday Checkpoint: Identifying Discourse Communities Joining the Community Checkpoint: Bringing Voices Together Writing Like an Intellectual Establishing a Research Focus Organizing Research Materials Understanding Your Research Community Participating in the Research Community The Writing Process Pre-Writing Drafting Revising Final Editing Sample Intellectual Strategies Bridging Academic CommunitiesRundown: Strategies for Research and Writing Discussion Questions and Activities 3 Writing Education: Moving from Home to College CommunitiesAntonio Gramsci, On IntellectualsDavid Bartholomae, From Inventing the University Andrew Delbanco, College: Who Went? Who Goes? Who Pays? Various Authors, Excerpts from Pro(se)letariets Harry Boyte and Elizabeth Hollander, Wingspread Declaration on the Civic Responsibilities of Research Universities Writing with Communities: Projects Project 1: Evidence of IntellectualsProject 2: Writing across the Curriculum (and Beyond)Project 3: What Was (and Is) Your CollegeProject 4: Performing CommunityProject 5: The Students’ Right to Their Own Language Project 6: The Forgotten Bottom Remembered4 Writing Classrooms: Discovering Writing within Classroom CommunitiesGerald Graff, The Problem Problem and Other Oddities of Academic DiscourseCarmen Kynard, From Candy Girls to Cyber Sista-Cypher Chris Wilkey, Engaging Community Literacy through the Rhetorical Work of Education Writing with Communities: Projects Project 1: Crossing BoundariesProject 2: Hush HarborsProject 3: A Community of ClassroomsProject 4: Community VoicesProject 5: A Community of IntellectualsProject 6: Activist ScholarsPart Two: Collaboration and Publishing 5 Community Partnerships Writing Prompt: "Intersections" Getting Started Checkpoint: Finding Your Place Checkpoint: Intruding Learning about the Community Researching the Neighborhood Checkpoint: For Better or Worse Engaging with Residents "Story of Self" Workshop Understanding Your Role in the Community Partnership Defining Your Role Limited Involvement Sustained Involvement Transformative Involvement Rundown: Strategies for Community Partnerships Discussion Questions and Activities 6 Establishing Community Writing Groups Writing Prompt: "The Writing Machine" Adams College: A Case Study for Community Writing Groups Initiating Public School Partnerships Creating a Tutoring Program in Schools Using Writing Prompts Responding to Student Writing Creating a Multiple-Location Writing Project Writing Prompts for Classroom Purposes Checkpoint: Reading and Responding Connecting to the Community Fill in the Blank Video Responses Community Leaders Connecting to College Students Student Organizations as Respondents Attracting Social Media Responses Student Leaders Connecting to College Administrators and Faculty Faculty Administration Conducting Interviews: Frameworks and Strategies Sponsoring Community Dialogue The Mechanics of a Community Writing Group Establishing a Writing Group Holding an Opening Meeting Meeting Place Ground Rules Reading Work in Groups Criticism and Feedback Your Role as a Student Public Readings Working for PublicationRundown: Strategies for Community Writing Groups Discussion Questions and Activities 7 Community Events and Community PublishingWriting Prompt: "Coming Home" Creating a Community Event Working Closely with Your Community Partner Setting Goals and Work Plans for the Event Writing Prompts Open Mic Public Readings Organization Tables Kids’ Station Volunteer Table Food Follow-Up Checkpoint: Asking for Approval Creating a Community Publication Setting Publication Goals Fundraising to Meet Goals Generating Writing for the Publication Permission to Print Design Editorial Decision-Making The Question of Standard English Print Publishing Considerations Creating Book Files International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and Barcodes Print on Demand Printing Timeframe Distribution Book Launch A Final Note on Adams College Rundown: Community Events and Community Publishing Discussion Questions and Activities 8 Writing Place: Mapping Yourself Onto Local, National, and International Communities Nedra Reynolds, Reading Landscapes and Walking the Streets and Maps of the Everyday: Habitual Pathways and Contested Places Paula Mathieu, Writing in the Streets Jesus Villicana Lopez, I Left Moroleon at Daybreak, with Great Sadness Writing with Communities: ProjectsProject 1: Listening to the Voice of ExperienceProject 2: Becoming VisibleProject 3: Performing Citizenship Project 4: From Our Eyes: A Community Tourbook Project 5: Crossing Borders: A Community PublicationProject 6: Building Community9 Writing Networks: Creating Links On and Off-Line Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, The Whole Is Great James Paul Gee and Elizabeth R. Hayes, New Kinds of People and RelationshipsMatt Mason, The Tao of Pirates Wikileaks.org, About Wikileaks Writing with Communities: ProjectsProject 1: A University Wikileaks Project 2: A Gaming ClassroomProject 3: Media NetworksProject 4: Networking ActionProject 5: Literate LivesProject 6: Pirate Radio10 Writing Identity: Moving in and across Boundaries Wesley Yang, The Face of Seung-Hui Cho Stacey Waite, Excerpts from Butch Geography Gloria Anzaldúa, Tlilli, Tlapalli/The Path of the Red and Black Ink and La Consciencia de le Mestizo/Towards a New Consciousness Jonathan Alexander, Queer Theory for Straight Students Writing with Communities: ProjectsProject 1: Bodily EncountersProject 2: The Student BodyProject 3: Beyond Singular Identity PoliticsProject 4: A Communal BodyProject 5: "This Is the Body of A..."Project 6: Coming TogetherAppendix of Key Terms Index
Stephen Parks
Stephen Parks (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) is Founder and Executive Director of New City Community Press as well as an associate professor of writing at Syracuse University. He has edited and written Class Politics: The Movement for the Students’ Right to Their Own Language, Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, and Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love. In 2015, he was appointed editor of the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s “Studies in Writing and Rhetoric” series, a group of publications devoted to the teaching of writing and rhetoric at the college level.
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