Research Brief: Community-Engaged Writing
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| Title: | Research Brief: Community-Engaged Writing |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Jessica Pauszek, Veronica House, Paula Mathieu |
| Source: | College Composition and Communication. 2026 77(3):484-495. |
| Availability: | National Council of Teachers of English. 1111 West Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Tel: 877-369-6283; Tel: 217-328-3870; Web site: http://www.ncte.org/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 12 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Writing Research, Community Involvement, Cooperation, Accountability, Research Methodology, Story Telling, Interviews, Oral History, Ethnography, Archives, Exhibits, Performance, Workshops |
| DOI: | 10.58680/ccc2026773484 |
| ISSN: | 0010-096X 1939-9006 |
| Abstract: | This Research Brief presents an overview of current research in community-engaged writing, particularly foregrounding the importance of praxis-oriented and collaborative approaches. Here, we articulate collaboration, reciprocity, and accountability as some of the main tenets of community-engaged writing, and we showcase the variety of projects that such work can include (from local food writing to prison literacy work to transnational social justice movements and beyond). Then, we explore some of the methods and methodologies that are central in this scholarship, drawing on examples that engage storytelling, oral history and interview methods, archival methods, ethnographic research, and even public performances and workshops. We conclude with a discussion of future possibilities for research, teaching, and the imperative to see community-engaged work as part of scholarly work in tenure, promotion, and review. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1499591 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This Research Brief presents an overview of current research in community-engaged writing, particularly foregrounding the importance of praxis-oriented and collaborative approaches. Here, we articulate collaboration, reciprocity, and accountability as some of the main tenets of community-engaged writing, and we showcase the variety of projects that such work can include (from local food writing to prison literacy work to transnational social justice movements and beyond). Then, we explore some of the methods and methodologies that are central in this scholarship, drawing on examples that engage storytelling, oral history and interview methods, archival methods, ethnographic research, and even public performances and workshops. We conclude with a discussion of future possibilities for research, teaching, and the imperative to see community-engaged work as part of scholarly work in tenure, promotion, and review. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-096X 1939-9006 |
| DOI: | 10.58680/ccc2026773484 |
