Introduction: Making Writing Matter
What Is Engaged Scholarship?
Making Writing Matter for First-Year Students
Writing for Civic Engagement
How I Came to Write This Book
The Organization of This Book
Part 1. The Place of Writing in the University
Chapter 1. Engaged Scholarship at the University
Changing The Kind of Thing We Do Around Here
Important Work, But Not University Partnership
How Discourse Drives Engagement
Educating Citizens to Write
When Students "Walk" the City
Chapter 2. Writing as Participation
Institution, Genre, and Social Action
This Container Isn't Big Enough
Writing About What Others Have Written
Writing for Participation
Revision or Social Action?
Writing in a Community of Practice
Chapter 3. Telling Tales Out of School
When Is a Diary Not a Diary?
Both Ends Against the Middle
What's a Writing Program For?
The Mountain Makes It's Own Weather
Learning to Spell Rescission
Getting What You Wish For
Reflecting on Experience?
Part 2. Designing Instruction to Make Writing Matter
Chapter 4. Rethinking Reflection in Community-Based Writing
A New Space for Teaching and Learning
Tales of Becoming a Writer
The Memoir and Its Truth or Consequences
On Not Assigning Literacy Narratives
Recruiting Students for CCLCP
Developing Community-Based Partnerships
Designing a First-Year Curriculum for CCLCP
Chapter 5. Assessing Writing and Learning in Community-Based Courses (with Candice Rai and Megan Marie)
Situated Writing and Learning
Developing an Assessment Matrix
Chapter 6. Teaching the Teachers
Against First-Year Writing
The Paradox of Transferability
Designing Situated Writing Projects
A Manifesto for First-Year Writing
