Browse community and public writing annotated bibliographies by clicking on the links below. A prototype project is included first that is intended to initiate a public public writing annotated bibliography. Following that are community-oriented bibliographies, both shared and publicly available online.
Please contribute to our Public Public Writing Annotated Bibliography! This document is a prototype that represents our interest in public writing. Any media related to public writing can be added to this live document.
To contribute, click on the image to the right or this link, and add your entry. You can add columns (i.e., new categories) to the top at any time, and can also edit the document as you believe is necessary. The purpose is to welcome public entries, publicly shared revisions, and to collaboratively create a working knowledge of public writing scholarship.
As an example of revision, you might decide that entries can be better grouped a different way (other than alphabetical order). You might also see different tag words or subject descriptions as relevant to the resource listed. Please add your entries and revisions with the larger goal of creating a well informed public document in mins! Thank you!
Subject: Anti-Oppressive Community Engagement
This annotated bibliography was shared by Joshua Semerjian from the University of California Merced, and thoughtfully details a series of guiding principles for anti-oppressive and anti-racist community engagement.
Subject: Community Research
This comprehensive (100 publication!) bibliography traces the history of the word “community” in community research between 2000 and 2011.
Subject: Service Learning
Authored by University of Kansas graduate TAs in the Fall of 2022, this annotated bibliography includes nine annotations on service learning pedagogy with authors including Bacon (2001), Beck (2003), Deans (2010), and more.
Subject: Programmatic Approaches to FYC Service Learning
Published through WAC Clearinghouse’s CompPile resource repository, the audience for this bibliography is writing program administrators who both engage in composition instruction and service learning.
Subject: Community Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions
This compilation is published through the University of North Carolina Greensboro. It is intended to be relevant to community engaged work in health-related professions.
Subject: Diversity and Inclusion in Community Engagement
This extensive (130 page) bibliography is titled “Community-Based Organizations and DEI Annotated Bibliography. Attribution goes to Bonnie Duran through academia.edu. Resources described are empirical examples of community engagement.
Subject: Anti-Racist Methods
This bibliography describes published scholarship on anti-racist methods. Although a field is not specifically described, the work is published through the University of North Carolina’s Jordan Institute for Families. One interesting quote from this document reads: “This is a living document because this body of work is growing every day. You can submit resources for inclusion here.”
Subject: Community Engagement
This bibliography is published through California State University Fullerton’s Center for Internships and Community Engagement. Works are organized by medium and include everything from Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed to textbooks on community practice, to community-based research.
Subject: Open Social Scholarship
This bibliography is published by El Khatib et al., through researchgate.net, and features works on trends toward ‘open’ and public scholarship.
Subject: Community Engagement
This resource list was published after an early 2000s Washington State University Community Engagement Summit. The authors recognize power dynamics between universities and local organizations.
Subject: Participatory Consult
This bibliography on participatory consultations pays particular attention to the community as stakeholder, to meaningful engagement of community, to marginalized populations, and determining priorities.
Subject: Environmental Justice
This annotated bibliography centers on environmental justice and is published through the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. One of the criteria for selecting articles was “Capacity building and the value of community engagement.”
Subject: Community Land Trust
This bibliography is titled “Community Land Trust Principles and Processes” and is authored by Chin et al. It highlights best practices for planning and implementing a community land trust.
Subject: Community Literacy Studies
This annotated bibliography is from Elenore Long’s WAC Clearinghouse book titled Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (2008).
The Virginia Community Writing Collaborative 