Your Voice Matters Subtitle: First-Year Writing and Social Justice

Authors

• Jackie Hendricks, Santa Clara UniversityFollow
• Amy J. Lueck, Santa Clara UniversityFollow
• Loring Pfeiffer, Santa Clara UniversityFollow
• Maura Tarnoff, Santa Clara UniversityFollow

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Description

Your Voice Matters: First-Year Writing and Social Justice frames writing as both an intellectual and community-oriented practice rooted in identity, audience awareness, and ethical engagement. Beginning with personal ways of knowing and the social construction of language, the text advances through public writing for social change, research methods grounded in justice, rigorous source collection and analysis, and strategies for making scholarly conversation visible and meaningful to real audiences. By foregrounding positionality, linguistic justice, and multi-modal strategies for public communication, this book equips students with the critical tools and reflective practices necessary for producing purposeful, public-facing writing.

Publication Date

2026

Publisher

Pressbooks

Comments

Your Voice Matters Copyright © by Jackie Hendricks; Amy Lueck; Loring Pfeiffer; and Maura Tarnoff is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

https://doi.org/10.64650/your-voice-matters

Recommended Citation

Hendricks, Jackie; Lueck, Amy J.; Pfeiffer, Loring; and Tarnoff, Maura, "Your Voice Matters Subtitle: First-Year Writing and Social Justice" (2026). OER for Social Justice Grant. 1.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/oer_grant/1