Measuring Words in Actions: Writing and the Process of Social Change.

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A composition instructor developed a course that has moral traction, a course intended to serve as a blueprint students, a heuristic enlarging social consciousness and effecting social change. On the first day of class, the instructor introduces the fundamental theme of poverty and a schedule of assignments/activities that commence the class's journey as a community of purpose. A discussion of social class segues into project one, an inquiry into the terms used to construct poverty as a discursive and material category. The second assignment asks students to turn their attention to mass media texts that most likely shaped their prior understanding of poverty. In the third project, students volunteer service with an agency that helps people meet their basic needs. The last two projects (an analysis of the organization which they worked and a formal academic research paper) encourage students to reflect on their actions and ponder steps toward short or long term solutions. These five pro

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