Final Writing Assignment

As you come to the end of your time working with your community partner, think back to the beginning of the semester and try to remember how you felt before your first visit to their site. How have your opinions (of a community, yourself, or your abilities) changed? What has remained the same?

Week 13 Writing Assignment

Discuss the scenario in the Baase book, question 9.27, p. 482.

Week 12 Writing Assignment

Write a blog entry about your community partner. It should contain (at least) the following information:

• What is the organization, and where are they located?
  
• What population do they serve?
• How big is the organization?
• How long have they been in existence?
• Are they a local organization, national, or international?
  
• What is their mission?
• What are you doing with them this semester?

You might want to talk with your community partner to find out the answers to some of these questions.

Week 11 Writing assignment

1. Read Chapter 8 of Baase and answer question 8.26.

2. Chapter 7 of the Cress book deals with failure in service-learning projects: what happens when things go wrong. Read this chapter and identify a problem, challenge or difficulty that you've had in your service-learning assignment. Apply the D-U-E process discussed in the book.