"The collection editors...suggest...that service learning and TESOL are becoming more visible and that there are questions as to whether the partnerships can be as mutually beneficial as they are billed to be." buff.ly/2EnIvWJ

"The important message from this book is that when students learn to investigate and write about their places, and see themselves as members of communities, then their education becomes more meaningful to them..." buff.ly/2FDh8oG

"Issues of representation aside, Holmes’s book makes a solid case for pursuing public writing pedagogy while emphasizing that the aim in doing so is much larger than any writing classroom.. instructors must go public...to preserve the greater public good." buff.ly/2nqkLqq

"The students in my spring 2017 graduate Literacy and Community Issues class developed a new term as part of our classroom vocabulary: starfishing. They coined this term in response to Paul Feigenbaum’s [book,] Collaborative Imagination..." buff.ly/2DLk1mG

"Book publishing in the twenty-first century is becoming more accessible and writing-based literacies more common as platforms such a Wattpad have emerged to offer writers a platform for ebooks that is similar to that which YouTube offers video makers." buff.ly/2Enj2Km

CLJ enjoyed the Editors Roundtable @rnf4c xitter.cf/rnf4c/status/973991429…

"This is a teacher who learned from his students as a matter of habit and principle, discipline and nature." buff.ly/2EmQK2S

"...our discipline’s use of the term ['the streets'] can be seen in two ways: 1) as co-opting a term used by people who identify with the streets, or 2) as joining these people in employing their own terminology." buff.ly/2nnr8eb

"To self-publish from jail is never a simple act of getting writing out since the self that emerges onto a page is always already mediated through jail." buff.ly/2nqePxE

"This will require us to develop new forms of community partnerships, ones that might look less like a writing group and more like looking out for cops at 2:00am on the side of a highway." buff.ly/2np3j5G

"...writers and staff talked often about circulation and the value of accidental readers. Barbershops, hair salons, and diners were locations where copies of the journals were left, so they could be picked up, maybe read, maybe carried somewhere else..." buff.ly/2nnBVVC

"I learned [my grandfather's] history when I attended...a community-based history exhibit and laid eyes on a photograph of him working on the railroad in Montana. He was nineteen years old." buff.ly/2EndpMt

"My fan writing has led to more than a few tense, and often theoretically steeped, conversations with colleagues who questioned my production of fan materials..." buff.ly/2En9ZJt

"Hiding behind abstract rules makes it much easier not to see the pain and suffering of others and not to see ourselves, in whatever way, as like them. It also makes it easier to feel more allegiance to rules rather than people." O’Connor, Morality & Our Complicated Form of Life

U of Albany’s President Robert Jones on public engagement from public research universities. K-12 school engagement is a responsibility and a priority to close the achievement gap. xitter.cf/JMRifenburg/status/941…

12.1 is available! You can access the articles via Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/journal/539

"The authority to speak is not equally distributed and, in fact, like other material goods, can be scarce for most people. Linguistic insecurity, like food insecurity, is manufactured politically through the unjust manipulation of power."—Brandt, Economies of Writing, p. 270