This Is How We Change Things: Promoting Student Agency Through Service-Learning in First-Year Composition

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Contents

Introduction

Justification

Rethinking Authority in the Classroom

Challenges

Conclusion

References

About the Author

About the Author

David Williams (he/him) earned his PhD in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University in 2025. His scholarly interests include film rhetoric, Holocaust representation, digital rhetoric, and composition pedagogy. His research primarily examines how democratized digital composition practices, enabled by smartphones and evolving communication technologies, allow more diverse voices to contribute to Holocaust knowledge. David currently teaches first-year writing at University of South Carolina.