Service-Learning and Professional Writing

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This paper looks at the service-learning method of teaching professional writing skills and suggests that it is an effective way to teach students in an informative, engaging manner. Writing for non-profit business organizations is one of the ways suggested that universities can offer service-learning opportunities. The paper then explains, in greater detail, how this application of service-learning would work and points out that the student, university, faculty, and business will benefit from this type of arrangement, although the student is of primary concern.

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"Service learning has become an integral part of educational curriculum from the youngest to the oldest learning populations. The challenge at a college level is to both instruct students in an informed and engaging manner and to offer opportunities for learning that hold the six tenets of service learning to heart; integrated learning, high quality service, student voice, civic responsibility, and reflection."

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