Volume 7 • No. 3
Reflections
Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy

Bridging the Gap: Emerging Scholars, Emerging Forms of Scholarship
Table of Contents
1 Reflections: Bridging the Gap (Editorial)
Steve Parks
3 Introduction
Kevin Bott, Sylvia Gale, Viet Le, Karen Smith, Laura T. Smith
Section I: Emergent Possibilities
8  Poetry of Desire: Teenage Girls Challenge the "Dilemma" and Write about Sexuality
Dana Edell
24  Invoking Solidarity and Engaged Listening in Publicly Active Work: Translating and Transcribing Jorge Velasquez’s Testimonio
Michelle Bellino
34 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
46 The Politics of Persuasion versus the Construction of Alternative Communities: Zines in the Writing Classroom
Aneil Rallin and Ian Barnard
58 Who Knew Public Scholarship was so Fun(ny)?: Practical Applications Within and Beyond the Academy
Rebecca Krefting
71 From Discourse Communities to Activity Systems: Activity Theory as Approach to Community Service Writing
Michael-John DePalma
85  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
11/21/08 Case Study: Michigan Technological University
Elizabeth A. Flynn, Michael Moore, Mariana Mueller
Community Writing Initiative: http://www.english.wayne.edu/communitywriting/
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
More responses to be added weekly!
Book 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