Volume 7 - Number 3
Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy
Bridging the Gap: Emerging Scholars, Emerging Forms of Scholarship

Reflections: Bridging the Gap (Editorial)
Steve Parks

Introduction
Kevin Bott, Sylvia Gale, Viet Le, Karen Smith, Laura T. Smith

Section I: Emergent Possibilities
Poetry of Desire: Teenage Girls Challenge the “Dilemma” and Write about Sexuality
Dana Edell

Invoking Solidarity and Engaged Listening in Publicly Active Work: Translating and Transcribing Jorge Velasquez’s Testimonio
Michelle Bellino

Piecing Together Narrative Puzzles: A New Scholar’s Reflections on a Community Partnership in an Attempt to Reconcile the Research Teaching and Outreach Triad
Sheila Carter-Tod

The Politics of Persuasion versus the Construction of Alternative Communities: Zines in the Writing Classroom
Aneil Rallin and Ian Barnard

Who Knew Public Scholarship was so Fun(ny)?: Practical Applications Within and Beyond the Academy
Rebecca Krefting

From Discourse Communities to Activity Systems: Activity Theory as Approach to Community Service Writing
Michael-John DePalma

The Life of A Poem: Audre Lorde’s “Litany for Survival” in Post-Lacrosse Durham
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Section II: Emergent Problems
The Push and Pull of Being Publicly Active in Graduate School
Paul Feigenbaum

Does the Academy Need an “Extreme Makeover”?
Allison Gross

Expanding Community-Based Work While Maintaining the Edge
Cara L. Kozma

One Grad Student’s Reflections
Jaclyn M. Wells

Courage, Commitment and a Little Humility: The Path to Civic Engagement
Jennifer J. Kidd

A Charter for Civic Engagement and Holistic Academic Process
Winona Wynn

Section III: Emergent Responses
Community Writing Initiative
Gwen Gorzelsky and Ruth Ray, Department of English, Wayne State University

Service Education as (Auto?)-Ethnographic Encounter
Jim Henry, Director of Composition and Rhetoric, University of Hawai'i at Mänoa

Reviews
From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community (Charlotte Hogg)
Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Witt

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (Elenore Long)
Reviewed by David Coogan