Writing the Everyday Life: Community Literacies within the First-Year Composition Classroom

Jess Pauszek

Now as I get older I think its better to become involved in your community, and try to make it possible to have the things you want without moving away Gary Bonaparte

How can we bring in notions of community engagement to FirstYear Composition so that students can ethically and responsibly connect to the community around them?

The do-gooders from Syracuse University, right? Theyre intellectuals, right? Many of them are too sophisticated to understand the basics. They dont understand us ( Lombardo 70).

Do-gooders
Charity

Paternalistic
Service

Savior Complex
Us/Them

The ordinary practitioners of the city live down below, below the thresholds at which visibility beginsThese practitioners make use of spaces that

Who are Intellectuals?

What is everyday writing?

Who are ordinary practitioners ?

Everyday Writing

WRT 104

1. Observing a place ( digital or physical) How is this space constructed? noun this space? How does writingas both a and verb function in

2. This I Believe
engaging in Everyday Literacy

Goal : Connect material aspects of everyday lives through local writing to understand how spaces and identities are constructed for (and by) us