Writing and Community Engagement: A Critical Sourcebook

Thomas Deans teaches at the University Connecticut, where he also directs the writing center and the writing across the disciplines program. His teaching and research interests include composition theory, service-learning, rhetoric, writing across the curriculum, prose style, writing in workplace and civic settings, pragmatist philosophy, Shakespeare, and the relationship between literature and composition. He is the author of Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition and Writing and Community Action.

Barbara Roswell teaches at Goucher College, where she has also directed the Writing Program, WAC, and the First Year Colloquium. The founding editor of Reflections and co-author of Reading, Writing, and Gender, her scholarship has appeared in Assessing Writing, Educational Assessment, Writing Center Journal, and the Community Arts Network. She has been instrumental in developing the Baltimore Read A Story - Write A Story after-school program and the college degree program at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women.