Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics is the sixth book in the Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition series, whose editor, Charles Bazerman, has set out to provide “compact, comprehensive, and convenient surveys of what has been learned through research and practice” on a single topic. The topic here is community literacy, and Elenore Long is a dynamic docent, steering readers through a large gallery of foundational work in this young field. The book provides definitional common ground, a disciplinary genealogy, guiding metaphors for the dominant models in play, a set of pedagogical practices, and an annotated bibliography.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric