Programs: Writing Workshop

Service Projects

Teacher Resources

Readings/Resources

Service-Learning at OSU

OSU's Service-Learning Initiative
"OSU & Trevitt Elementary School Partnership for Literacy Evaluation, 1999"
"OSU & Hubbard Elementary School Partnership for Literacy Evaluation, 1999-2000"
A Resource Manual for Doing Volunteer Literacy Partnership Work, 1999-2000

Service-Learning in Composition and Across Disciplines

Service-Learning in Composition Studies at Other Universities (for a more inclusive list see Tom Dean's Writing Partnerships)

Bentley College Similar to the service-learning 110.03 sections we offer, courses are offered in which students tutor (adults or children) and reflect on issues of literacy and education. Several other kinds of composition courses are offered as well. (See Herzberg "Community Service")

Community Literacy Center A "community/university collaborative" between Pittsburgh's Community House and the Center for the Study of Writing at Carnegie Mellon University, here "urban teens and adults, with the support of their Carnegie Mellon student mentors, use writing and public dialogue to take action and to address the dreams and problems of our urban neighborhoods." (See Peck, et al. "Community Literacy")

Foothill College Basic Writers enrolled in the course Basic Writing Skills have the option to engage in service-learning projects. (See Arca "Systems Thinking")

Michigan State University Through the Service-Learning Writing Project first-year writing courses unite "challenging intellectual content, writing instruction, and community-based service-learning writing projects into an innovative educational experience in active learning."

Stanford University One of the oldest composition service-learning programs in the country, the Community Writing Project within the Program of Writing and Rhetoric asks students to "research and produce written, spoken, visual, and/or multimedia projects that directly benefit area non-profit or governmental agencies with which they work."

Selected Bibliography (a small sample of service-learning scholarship in composition studies that most specifically pertains to Workshop courses)
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Digging a Groundwork for Writing: Underprepared Students and

Community Service Courses." CCC 46 (1995): 552-55.

Adler-Kassner, Linda, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters, eds. Writing the Community.

Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997.

Arca, Rosemary L. "Systems Thinking, Symbiosis, and Service: The Road to Authority for

Basic Writers." Writing the Community. Eds. Adler-Kassner, Linda, Robert Crooks, and

Ann Watters. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997. 133-41.
Cushman, Ellen. "The Public Intellectual, Service-Learning, and Activist Research."

College English 61 (1999): 328-36.

--- "Sustainable Service Learning Programs." CCC 54.1 (2002): 40-64.
Cushman, Ellen and Chalon Emmons. "Contact Zones Made Real." School's Out! Bridging

Out-of-School Literacies with Classroom Practice. Eds. Glynda Hull and Katherine
Schultz. New York: Teachers College, 2002. 203-232.

Deans, Tom. Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Rhetoric and Composition. Urbana, IL:

NCTE, 2000.

Green, Ann E. "Difficult Stories: Service-Learning, Race, Class, and Whiteness." CCC

55.2 (2003): 276-301.

Herzberg, Bruce. "Community Service and Critical Teaching." CCC 45.3 (1994): 307-19.
---. "Service Learning and Public Discourse." JAC 20.2 (2002): 391-404.
Julier, Laura. "Community-Service Pedagogy." A Guide to Composition Pedagogies.

Ed. Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 132-48.

Peck, Wayne Campbell, Linda Flower, Lorraine Higgins. "Community Literacy." Eds.
Ellen Cushman et al. Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's,
2001. 572-87.

Sample Course Materials

Supportive Texts for Tutoring Preparation
Help America Read by Gay Su Pinell and Irene C. Fountas
How Can I Help? Stories and Reflection on Service by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
Intervening for Literacy by Charles Temple and James MaKinster
Tutoring Adolescent Literacy Learners by Kelly Chandler-Olcott and Kathleen A. Hinchman
Volunteers Working With Young Readers by Lester Laminack

Course Texts

Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
Holler If You Hear Me by Gregory Michie
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
I Am a Pencil by Sam Swope
Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose
Not Much, Just Chillin' by Linda Perlstein
Promised Lives by Mike Rose
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
Teaching Community by bell hooks

Selected Articles

The Banking Concept by Paulo Freire
The Library Card chapter in Black Boy by Richard Wright
Readers (could pull selected essays)
Community Matters: A Reader for Writers by Marjorie Ford and Elizabeth Schave Sills
Composing a Civic Life by Michael Berndt and Amy Muse
Writing and Community Action: A Servcie-Learning Rhetoric with Readings by Thomas Deans
Writing as Reflective Action by Duncan Carter and Sherrie Gradin
Writing for Real by Carolyn Ross and Ardel Thomas

Videos/Films

Master Teacher Series Nightline video

Sample Syllabi and Assignments

Medary

Rules for Elementary School Tutoring [DOC]: For the 110.03 students. Discuss prior to the first visit.
Partner List [DOC]: For the site coordinator. List the OSU-Trevitt student partners.
Sign-In Sheet [DOC]: For Trevitt. This is a blank sheet with spaces for students to write their names, time in and time out. At the top of the sheet is a blank for the date. Create about 10 copies. These copies are kept in the OSU notebook on the counter in the principal's office. Site coordinator changes the sheet weekly, adding new dates.
Reading Log [DOC]: For the 110.03 students. With their first-grade partners, students log the books they have read together during each tutoring session.
Partner Tracking Log [DOC]: For the Writing Workshop. Students fill out each week and turn in at the end of the quarter.
Nancy Pine SP05 [DOC]
Amie Wolf WI06

Trevitt

Martha Sims SP06
Pat Kedzerski AU05

JPMS

Mindy Wright AU05
Martha Sims WI06