Deans

Deans, Thomas. Writing Partnerships: Service Learning in Composition. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.

A comprehensive overview of relationship between composition and ASL. Sees ASL as an extension of Dewey's experiential ed. and pragmatism and Freire's notion of critical praxis. Classifies ASL projects into three camps: writing FOR the community (often genre-based, with the advantage of providing real rhetorical situations), ABOUT the community (reflection-based, emphasis on some combination of personal growth and analysis), and WITH the community (encompassing collaborative-based work often involving hybrid discourses). Deans resists advocating one of these, instead suggesting we use his schema as a heuristic for asking what our own pedagogical goals are.