One Grad Student’s Reflections by Jaclyn M. Wells

In spring 2007, I began working with a fellow graduate student in Purdue’s Rhet/Comp program on a community engagement project that would become the basis for both our dissertations. Allen and I agreed to work together because of our mutual interests in community engagement and public rhetorics, as well as our complementary interests in
professional writing and usability (what we would call “his things”), and writing program administration and adult basic education (“my things”).