Introduction: Teaching and writing across communities : developing partnerships, publics, and programs --

Writing in Communities. Sponsors of literacy / Deborah Brandt -- Kitchen tables and rented rooms : the extracurriculum of composition / Anne Ruggles Gere -- The word on the street : public discourse in a culture of disconnect / Diana George -- The death penalty : deterrent or legalized murder? / Ellis Roberts -- Finding a home for Rick / Heather Bargeron -- Don't you know everybody got issues? / Sandra Gildersleeve Freeman -- Grandma dearest / Chi-An Chang -- Geographies of hope : a study of urban landscapes, digital media, and children's representations of place / Glynda A. Hull and Michael Angelo James --

The Terms of Service-Learning. English studies and public service / Thomas Deans -- The irony of service : charity, project, and social change in service-learning / Keith Morton -- Community service and critical teaching / Bruce Herzberg --

Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and the Public Sphere. Rogue cops and health care : what do we want from public writing? / Susan Wells -- Community literacy : a rhetorical model for personal and public inquiry / Lorraine Higgins, Elenore Long, and Linda Flower -- Maybe the reason why / Mark Howard -- From Naming the LD difference / Carnegie Mellon Community Think Tank -- Service learning and social change : the case for materialistic rhetoric / David Coogan --

The Ethics of Engagement. The rhetorician as an agent of social change / Ellen Cushman -- "The rheotrician as an agent of social change" in action : online Cherokee Nation educational projects / Cherokee Nation and Michigan State University students -- Service-learning as a path to virtue : the ideal orator in professional communication / James M. Dubinsky -- From students in the streets / Paula Mathieu -- Ruptura : acknowledging the lost subjects of the service learning story / Tracy Hamler Carrick, Margaret Himley, and Tobi Jacobi -- Alinsky's reveille : a community-organizing model for neighborhood-based literacy projects / Eli Goldblatt --

Writing Programs as Community Engagement. Writing beyond the curriculum : fostering new collaborations in literacy / Steve Parks and Eli Goldblatt -- A tattoo's story / Jakk G. III -- My decision / Jesùs Villicana Lopez -- Writing across communities : diversity, deliberation, and the discursive possibilities of WAC / Michelle Hall Kells -- When the community writes : re-envisioning the SLCC DiverseCity writing series / Tiffany Rouseculp --

Pedagogies in Action. Tapping the potential of service-learning : guiding principles for redesigning our composition courses / Cheryl Hofstetter Duffy -- Service learning and first-year composition / Brock Haussamen -- Text-based measures of service-learning writing quality / Adrian Wurr -- The trouble with transfer : lessons form a study of community service writing / Nora Bacon -- Shifting locations, genres, and motives : an activity theory analysis of service-learning writing pedagogies / Thomas Deans -- Exploring difference in the service-learning classroom : three teachers write about anger, sexuality, and social justice / Angelique Davi, Michelle Dunlap, and Ann E. Green -- Slipping pages through razor wire : literacy action projects in jail / Tobi Jacobi -- The dinner table III, The dinner table IV / Carol Pollard -- O tenacious weed, Writing inside / Kimberly Hricko -- Disturbing where we are comfortable : notes behind the walls / Lori Pompa