Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
Winter 2003
Abstract
This essay describes an advanced composition course in which the students studied the ethics, politics, history, and rhetorical strategies involved in writing the lives of others. The heart of the course was a service-learning project that introduced college juniors and seniors to veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The students interviewed, wrote brief biographies, and transcribed the wartime stories of a group of veterans from a local American Legion post and its women’s auxiliary. The stories were collected in a volume made available to local American Legion posts, veterans hospitals, and libraries in Connecticut.
Recommended Citation
Young, Sandra. "Writing The Lives Of Others: The Veterans Project." Pedagogy 3.1 (2003): 73-84.
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