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Making a Difference

Making a Difference. A Community Forum on Civic Writing SLCC Community Writing Center September 12, 2009. Community Forum Goals. Share understanding of institutional and individual “agents of change.” Consider civic/activist writing purposes/possibilities.

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Making a Difference

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  1. Making a Difference A Community Forum on Civic Writing SLCC Community Writing Center September 12, 2009

  2. Community Forum Goals Share understanding of institutional and individual “agents of change.” Consider civic/activist writing purposes/possibilities. Share perspectives on the state of civic/activist writing in the community. Co-develop strategies for institutional and individual roles in activist writing.

  3. Mission of the SLCC Community Writing Center The SLCC Community Writing Center (CWC) supports, motivates and educates people of all abilities and educational backgrounds who want to use writing for practical needs, civic engagement and personal expression. 

  4. “Purposes of Civic Writing/Advocacy Writing” Civic Writing is intended to: to personalize civic relationships with public officials and/or to express a civic identity with other citizens; to obtain information or assistance; to provide public information or to offer a public service; to evaluate public officials or services; and to advocate for people or causes. Advocacy civic writing is clustered around five distinct types of political activities: soliciting support for a civic or political organization; supporting or opposing public officials or candidates; supporting, opposing, or modifying existing or proposed laws or policies; creating or removing laws; and advocating new political structures or procedural rules. From Civic Writing in Education for Democratic Citizenship, 2003

  5. Traditional Venues Press Release Informative Flyer Short News Article Letters to the Editor Letters to Public Officials Newsletters

  6. Emerging Venues Blogs Twitter Community Response forums (Comment Boards) You Tube

  7. Strategies to Support Agents of Change

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