Confronting Clashing Discourses: Writing the Space Between Classroom and Community in Service-Learning Courses by Caryn Chaden, Roger Graves, David A. Jolliffe, Peter Vandenberg
The authors argue that writing-intensive service-learning courses extend the lessons of first-year composition courses by teaching students how to understand and negotiate differences between the discourses of the academy and those of community-based organizations. While first-year writing courses lead students through successive approximations of a generalized academic discourse in the relative safety of the composition…