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Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement

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Prof. Flower offers a compelling story of collaboration between her Rhetoric Program at CMU and an inner-city Pittsburgh literacy center. Her goal is intercultural inquiry where all parties co-develop the process and question each other's positions. The chapters are very helpful because they detail how the project was set up, how it operated, who did what and said what, and how it built a democratic "public" in one urban area. Prof. Flower's erudition is deep and thoroughly readable; she sets this community project into several academic disciplines and literatures-- literacy, communications in democracy, power relations, the utility of ethnographic research, among them. What can disciplines like writing instruction and rhetoric accomplish vis a vis social change? How can university students and faculty make a difference in the larger community? Read this inspiring book to see.

Nothing special - needed it for class.

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Flower's book is absolutely fantastic.

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in community literacy and civic education. It is a must own!