Prison Collaborative Writing: Building Strong Mutuality in Community-Based Learning by Grace Wetzel with a response by “Wes”
This essay explores the pedagogical lessons of student-inmate peer reviews conducted during a prison outreach project in a first-year composition class. Collaborative writing between inmates and students reveals the positive outcomes that can result from strong mutuality in community-based learning relationships. Through a qualitative analysis of student reflection papers and prisoner oral reflections, this essay…