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Introduction to Chapter 30

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Instructor's Notes

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Writing for and about Your Community

Service learning combines classroom education with life experience. In service-learning programs, students are most often placed in off-campus positions with government bureaus such as local parks and recreation departments or nonprofit organizations that offer community support services such as tutoring or computer skills. In these positions, students have an opportunity to apply what they are studying in class. Here are a few examples:

Nursing students teach expectant mothers about prenatal and infant care.
Chemistry students tour local elementary schools demonstrating science “magic.”
Botany students teach fourth graders about plants native to their region.
Zoology students help researchers gather samples for a study of local amphibian populations.
Political science students work with the local government to increase voter turnout.
English-speaking students tutor grade school children who are having trouble learning to read and write English.

Though you will probably find much to write about in your community service experience, you may also find writing to a wider audience to be part of your service.