Examining the intersection of culture and literacy education, this book explores the roles that class, race, ethnicity, and gender play in students' learning to negotiate the conventions of academic discourse. A foreword by Gary A. Olson is followed by an introductory chapter, in which it is claimed that recent literacy scholarship has tended to…

Arranged chronologically, the essays in this book trace the attempts of one writing teacher (Patricia Bizzell) to understand theoretically--and to respond pedagogically--to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Over the 10-year period chronicled in the essays that make up the book, the teacher sees…