Examines remediation as a social construct, as the product of perceptions and beliefs about literacy and learning. Illustrates how inaccurate and limiting notions of learners as being somehow cognitively defective can be created and played out in the classroom. Details the interactive processes that contribute to one student's being defined as…

Examines unconventional interpretations given to a poem by a student in a remedial college writing class. Argues that facilitating an underprepared student's entry into the academic community is compromised by efforts to channel student discourse into more common patterns. Calls for an instructional model that places student knowledge making at…

Cites and annotates 79 scholarly articles in composition and rhetoric drawn from books, monographs, and periodicals published in 1985-86. Excludes reviews of individual books, textbooks, teaching guides (unless theoretically focused), historical surveys, and elementary-secondary education studies. Emphasizes writings on new approaches, theories,…