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• W1497452702 abstract "Community Matters: A Reader for Writers Marjorie Ford Elizabeth Schave New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2002 Anyone who has taught English Composition for any length of time knows how difficult it is to choose from among dozens of worthy for writers. Most of these anthologies for first year students focus on issues of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, the media, the family (in its many forms), education, work, and a wide variety of others that novice students can recognize, relate to, grapple with, and sometimes resist. These issues, all of which provide fuel for innumerable paper topics, require that students think critically about the idea of community--how they belong to and participate in various groups on a daily basis. No matter which of these readers a composition instructor chooses, however, chances are that the questions and writing prompts linked to its scholarly, journalistic, and literary selections will not ask students to deal with beyond asking them to connect abstract ideas of the term itself with their own personal memories and experiences. Those of us who teach English Composition through service-learning tend to see this kind of strict reliance on such abstract-personal connections in composition readers as problematic. We expect our students to use their intimate-yet-critical understanding of community to write for, about, and/or with living, breathing members of local communities. Most readers, if we choose to use them at all, must serve as only one component of our course materials; we typically use handouts, supplemental readings, and/or course packs to help our students make the leap between in-class academic discussion and their pragmatic involvement with real people, with real needs, in real time. As effective as these supplemental materials may be, I personally prefer to rely heavily on a good reader when I teach composition. This is why I was happy to find Marjorie Ford's and Elizabeth Schave's Community Matters: A Reader for Writers. Although its title and basic organization hardly stand out among the plethora of writing textbooks in publication at any given time, Community Matters is written and edited with the service-learning instructor and student firmly in mind. One thing I particularly like about this book is how recognizable it is; this is essentially a standard composition reader that also directly incorporates materials necessary for teaching a service-learning writing course. Along with familiar reading selections from bell hooks, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tracy Kidder, and Tillie Olson, Community Matters includes plenty of checklists, questions, and guidelines for students participating in community projects of all kinds; examples of successful student writings--from reflective journal entries regarding service, to full-blown collaborative writing projects that serve local agencies; and, right alongside those more commonly anthologized pieces, the writings by and/or about community activists (some of which have been written specifically for Ford's and Schave's book), many of which will be new to instructors. Another benefit to Community Matters' recognizable format is that it easily could be used for a non-service-learning writing course. Besides including more typically anthologized authors, this book provides the student with preliminary chapters on critical reading; the fundamentals of planning, drafting, revising and editing; the art of writing a persuasive argument; and the nuances of doing secondary research. Another familiar feature of this book is its accompanying Web site, offering students and instructors a space for online discussions between class meetings, additional prompts for each chapter, plenty of links to other relevant Web sites, and even a chat room where students can share ideas and experiences with other students using Community Matters from around the country. There is plenty to say about these chapters and features, but this review will concentrate on what makes this reader a good choice for instructors dedicated to service-learning. …" @default.
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