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COMMUNITY RHETORICS:

Writing in the Service-Learning "Contact Zone"

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Leap of Faith/"Contact Zone" Essays

In personal narratives relating their experiences in various social, cultural, educational, or other kinds of "contact zones," students not only tell their stories but they also consider the crucial question "so what?". How do their experiences as travelers in the "contact zone" relate to broader political trends, social issues, or personal values? How does all of this connect and relate to our course readings?

Allison McCarty	Fall 2002	Ignoring and Embracing Culture
Matt Tuong	Fall 2002	Revelations from the Contact Zone
Yuriy Teslyar	Fall 2002	A Tale of Two Cities
Leslie Liang	Fall 2002	untitled
Jonathan Pearlstein	Fall 2002	My Conversion to Judaism
Vanessa Baker	Spring 2002	¿Entiendes? The Necessity of Accepting Inversions of Authority in Contact Zones
Arden Pennell	Winter 2003	Angry, Offended, andŠ Enlightened?
Helen Shi	Winter 2003	Who's Your Daddy?
Ratul Narain	Spring 2003	Leap of Faith: Preparing for the Contact Zone

Community Writing Projects

Community Agencies Partnered with Our Class

About the Community Writing Program

Students' past Community Writing Projects

Research Papers

Students' multiple-source research essays address many aspects of the broadest questions of their PWR classes. In "Writing for Real," students wonder about the nature of "communities" and explore a broad range of issues that impact communities of all kinds. In "Writing Nature," students explore issues of human identity and the various roles that human beings serve in nature.

Student	Draft	Peer Review	Revised Paper
Maggie Smith			Olympic Wolves?
Albert Lin	Human Cloning: What Will We Become?		Human Cloning: What Will We Become?
Mark Hammer			The Economics of Genetically Modified Foods
Rohit Sharda			Let There Be Sunlight
Ratul Narrain		Ratul's review of Ken Gerold's draft

Reading Presentations

Many students use PowerPoint to help them make with effective presentations of readings during the quarter.

Mark Hammer	David Quammen's "The Face of a Spider"
Albert Lin	Stephen Jay Gould, "On the Origin of Specious Critics"

Multimedia Oral Presentations

Students' multimedia oral presentations at quarter's end address specific aspects of their research papers or their Community Writing Projects.

Andrew Buck	2001-2002	Conservation VS Restoration
Dave Borrelli	2001-2002	Jaws
Tiffany Early	2001-2002	Navajo Creation Mythology
Albert Lin	Fall 2002	Human Cloning