August 20, 2025Open Access

Confronting Clashing Discourses

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Students in service-learning courses confront clashing discourses, enhancing their understanding of diverse communication styles.
The article documents three courses—one that utilized discourse tensions and two that viewed them as obstacles, indicating varied approaches.
Through detailed vignettes, the authors illustrate the challenge of negotiating competing discourses within writing-intensive contexts.
Addressing discourse friction can create a transformative teachable space, helping students learn to manage conflicts in communication.

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This article reveals how writing-intensive service-learning courses improve discourse negotiation in students, highlighting tensions between academic and community-based discourses.

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Chaden et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af408ecf1dd9ea359ec26f https://doi.org/10.59236/rjv2i2pp19-40

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This article reveals how writing-intensive service-learning courses improve discourse negotiation in students, highlighting tensions between academic and community-based discourses.

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