Chapter 3: CONSEQUENTIAL CONTEXTS

Your instructor and community partner created a carefully constructed learning environment so you can achieve both course learning objectives and meet a community need. Along the way, you will communicate with your instructor, your partner, your writing team (if you’re writing in a team), external informants, and potentially stakeholders beyond your campus community.

In these learning settings, the materials produced will be evaluated by the community partner you are working with. Community partners invest time in your learning experience and, like your instructor, are committed to your success in this course. A reciprocal partnership asks that you recognize that this learning environment is consequential not only for you , your team , your university , but also, most importantly, community partners . To facilitate your success and attentiveness to all these components, we’ve developed some question-based heuristics (processes for making decisions) to guide you through the work. This chapter discusses the rhetorical context of your work, methodologies and frameworks for doing the work, strategies for managing unanticipated events or challenges, and delivering your final materials.

This chapter will help you:

• understand the audience for your project
• clearly define the purpose of your project with your established audience in mind
• identify the usability and sustainability of your project
• create and execute a plan to accomplish your project goals
• tackle various challenges that may arise during the project
• identify elements of a checklist to review before finalizing and submitting your project