Lawmakers as Community Partners: Writing Public Policy in the Composition Class.
What if, instead of viewing legislators as distant or indirect audiences for public writing, we shifted to engage them as community partners, collaborating in a mutually beneficial relationship to develop fresh policy ideas from voices that are often missing in lawmaking? This article tells the stor...
| Publicado en: | Community Literacy Journal Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 12 - 35 |
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