Making Writing Matter: Composition in the Engaged University

by Ann M. Feldman

In Making Writing Matter, Ann M. Feldman explores how changing scholarship at engaged metropolitan universities offers an opportunity to redesign first-year writing classes in ways that make students better writers. An engaged university commits to a relationship with its surrounding metropolitan area, with faculty members undertaking collaborative research with community partners. The more vibrant, participatory role of an engaged university allows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791473813
• ISBN13: 9780791473818
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"