1. The Impact of Service Learning on Academic Writing
College English IIII
Service Learning & Academic Writing
劉怡君
國立政治大學

2. 劉怡君
Yichun Liu
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Office: 研究大樓 Room: 744

3. Requirements
Three academic writings: Narration, Comparison/contrast, Argumentation
Writing based on service learning experience.
Peer reviews (x3)

4. Grading Criteria Writing projects (x3): 45% Peer Review (x3): 24%
Journal (x2): 20%
Participation (Tutoring): 11%

5. What is Service Learning (S-L)
Rooted in experientialism
“a structured learning that combines community service with explicit learning objectives, preparation and reflection” ~Seifer (1998, p.274)

6. Research Findings about S-L
S-L helps students to:
Acquire content related knowledge (Bringle & Hatcher, 1996; Eyler & Giles, 1999)
Increase awareness of citizenship (Eyler & Giles, 1999)
Enhance learning motivation (Bryant and Hunton, 2000)
Develop critical thinking and
other meta-cognitive
competences (Deans, 2000;
Batchelder & Root, 1994)

7. Social Cognition Theory-- Vygotsky
Culture exposure and social interaction are essential to one’s intellectual development.

8. What is Writing??

9. S-L as a combination of postmodern ethnography and notions of reciprocity
(E. Cushman, 1999, p.332)

10. View points of an outsider “stepping in” and an insider “stepping out”
Turning the unfamiliarity into familiar; defamiliarizing the ordinary to find extraordinary.

11. Impact of S-L on knowledge construction
Ethnographical perspective: studying the “others” by stepping in then “stepping out” to adopt the “outsider stance” to examine target issue.
“Writing” : hanging out  scholarly work

12. Impact on Invention NS-L Writers:
experience research  opinion research supporting points
Writing

13. Invention Process of Arguments
S-L Writers:
On-going experience/observation opinion research supporting points
Writing

14. Insider’s identity
Outsider’s identity
S-L experience allows writers to perceive the world from different perspectives

15. Impacts of S-L on Writing
Impact on Data Collection exigency
Impact on Idea Generation Knowledge Ownership
Impact on Identity Construction Agency

16. Conclusion: Knowledge Social interaction Research Organizing
Discourse community
Audience
Concern
Social interaction
Research
Organizing
Categorizing
Experience
Synthesize
Writing
Analyzing

17. What is Writing?
Through S-L writing practice, writing can be raised as:
knowledge construction process
Self exploration process
Social negotiation
process

18. Thank You