Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics

Elenore Long Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Charles Bazerman, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-056-4 (paperback, $30.00); 978-1-60235-057-1 (hardcover; $60.00); 978-1-60235-058-8 (PDF, free download); also available at the WAC Clearinghouse: http://wac.colostate.edu © 2009 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse; 316 pages, with glossary, annotated bibliography, works cited, and index. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Offering a comparative analysis of community-literacy studies, Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of “ordinary people going public.” Elenore Long offers a rich theoretical framework for reviewing emergent community-literacy projects, examines pedagogies that educators can use to help students to go public in the course of their rhetorical education at college, and adapts local-pu