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Gray-Rosendale, Laura; Baca, Kathleen; Meyers, Alan; Uehling, Karen; Adler-Kassner, Linda; Harrington, Susanmarie; Reynolds, Tom – Composition Studies, 2001
Presents a conversation that is designed to get at the differences in definitions of basic writing across institutional boundaries, divergences in placement procedures and assessment mechanisms, and problems theoretical work has had historically in tackling the issues of central importance to educators and their students. Concludes with…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Secondary Education
Spigelman, Candace – Composition Studies, 2001
Notes that writing instructors want to resist authoritarian classroom arrangements because they want students to be active in their education and in their lives. Describes efforts to develop a "new model of authority, a new space," using peer group leaders, advanced standing students who facilitated writing groups in a first-year basic writing…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, Cooperation, Freshman Composition
