We know the drill: service learning is good. It’s good for you, it’s good for your students, and it’s good for the community partners and the communities they serve. We know the drill but we still want to hear it, and we want to hear why.
[But, oooh, baby, tell me how good it is … ]
That discussion, we admit, is a harder one to have, although several leading practitioners of service learning in the field of Composition Studies attempt, admirably, to capture the positive benefits pedagogically and communally-of service learning projects.