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Schell  \n Abstract: This article provides an analysis ofthe growing phenomenon of community writing groups for   \nmilitary veterans. Drawing on the scholarship on literacy studies, community literacy, and veterans’ writing   groups, the author profiles three veterans’ writing groups and provides strategies for starting up, conducting,   and sustaining such groups. The article also addresses the common questions, assumptions, and public   perceptions that are currently circulating about these groups and the possible role, function, and purpose of  writing in veterans’ lives.  \nIn the wake ofthe Global War on Terror, writing groups and workshops for military veterans have sprung up around the country. In addition to national projects such as Warrior Writers  \n[[http://www.warriorwriters.org/home.html](http://www.warriorwriters.org/home.html)](“About Us”), the Veterans’ Writing Project  \n[[http://veteranswriting.org/](http://veteranswriting.org/)](“What We Do”), and the National Endowment for the Humanities Project entitled Operation Homecoming [[http://www.nea.gov/national/homecoming/](http://www.nea.gov/national/homecoming/)](“National Initiatives”), college writing faculty and military veterans have formed veterans’ writing groups that meet at colleges and universities, public libraries, and community centers. These writing groups serve as “literacy sponsors,” which Deborah Brandt refers to as “agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and advantage by it in some way”(166). While individual groups vary in content, scope, genres, instructional techniques, and motivations—whether veterans are pursuing writing for artistic, historical, or therapeutic reasons or some combination thereof—the chiefgoal is the same: encouraging veterans to write and reflect about their military and war-time experiences.  \nUnlike the college writing courses that many of us teach, community-oriented veterans’ writing groups do not usually issue grades, credits, degrees, or certificates proving completion. Writers are not required to take part—they choose and are often compelled to be there through a desire to share their stories with fellow veterans and with a general public increasingly out oftouch with the sacrifices ofmilitary service. Drawing on the scholarship on literacy studies, community literacy, and the literature on veterans’ writing groups, I provide profiles ofthree veterans’ writing groups and o fer strategies for starting up, conducting, and sustaining such groups. I also address common questions, assumptions, and public perceptions currently circulating about such groups and the possible role, function, and purpose ofwriting in veterans’ lives. Along the way, I address my own experiences co-leading a community writing group for veterans at Syracuse University, a private university in the northeast.  \nThe Uses of Literacy among Military Veterans  \nCommunity-based writing groups for veterans exhibit many ofthe features of community literacy work. As Elenore Long argues, community literacy is organized around the question “how it is that ordinary people go public”(5 ; emphasis in original). Community literacy involves ordinary people engaged in literacy work aimed at  \nlocal publics “that are situated in time and place” and between “private and institutional lives”(Long 5).  \nDeploying the logic of community literacy scholarship, we might ask ofthese groups: How do veterans’ writing groups sponsor literacy among military veterans? What role do universities or other sponsoring organizations play in shaping the work of veterans’ writing grou","cbCaieDvNnf6nwEZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieDvNnf6nwEZ","pdf",374069,16,"English","# Writing with Veterans in a Community Writing Group\n## The Uses of Literacy among Military Veterans","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s main focus regarding veterans’ writing groups?\",\"answer\":\"The article analyzes the growth of community writing groups for military veterans and explains how such groups support veterans’ literacy through writing and reflection.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article describe community literacy in relation to these groups?\",\"answer\":\"It frames community literacy around how ordinary people go public, and how literacy work connects private lives with local publics in specific time and place.\"},{\"question\":\"What guidance does the article provide about running veterans’ writing groups?\",\"answer\":\"It profiles three groups and offers strategies for starting up, conducting, and sustaining writing groups for military veterans.\"}]","Writing with Veterans in a Community Writing Group | PDF",1792087212,25]