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Basic Writing in America - The History of Nine College Programs (Paperback)
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Basic Writing in America - The History of Nine College Programs (Paperback)
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Basic Writing in America, published three decades after Mina
Shaughnessy's ""Errors and Expectations"", presents the kind of
educational stories envisioned by The City University of New York's
Patricia Laurence. Each of these stories has its own unique
setting, conflict and outcome. Yet together they give a powerful
and dramatic portrait of basic writing in four-year colleges and
universities across the country. In the Introduction the editors
argue that basic writing programs involved a new concept of writing
remediation. Receiving impetus from the American civil rights
movement, these programs defined postsecondary education, not in
terms of an investment for society, but as an individual right.
Indeed, a major purpose of basic writing was to facilitate the
integration of underrepresented groups into America's colleges and
universities. The chapters describe the often hostile responses to
basic writing and its students; the low status of basic writing
programs within English departments and universities; clashes
within the basic writing field itself; pedagogical developments in
composition as applied to basic writing, and the
professionalization of basic writing faculty. They also show, as
years pass, the raising of college admission standards, the
elimination or downsizing of basic writing programs, and the
channeling of less qualified students to two-year colleges. But in
a number of institutions there are also innovations and successes,
including the emergence of a new type of basic writing program -
one that is more integrated with the college or university and that
offers learning support to a wider range of students.
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