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Download full textHorner, Bruce; Lu, Min-Zhan – 1999
Intended for teachers of basic writing, this book contains a collection of new and updated essays addressing issues surrounding underprepared writers. It maps errors and expectations for basic writing and develops teaching approaches that will be effective in a social and political world. The book considers concepts such as the possibility of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Techniques, Feminism, Higher Education
DiPardo, Anne – 1993
Focusing on culturally diverse students and the adequacy of efforts to help them succeed in college, this book presents an ethnographic study of the basic writing course, a central element of the adjustment between academe and nontraditional students. The research site, pseudonymously called Dover Park University for purposes of this account of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Administrator Attitudes, Basic Writing, Diversity (Student)
