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Horner, Bruce – College Composition and Communication, 1996
Explores how insights of the 1970s are being lost, namely, those about why and how the academy thinks about basic writing and students deemed "illiterate" or "remedial." Examines a discourse that the author calls Basic Writing and how it has marginalized basic writing courses, teachers, and students. (TB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Educational History, Higher Education

Grego, Rhonda; Thompson, Nancy – College Composition and Communication, 1996
Describes a writing studio program that replaces the standard basic writing course by offering special assistance to certain students enrolled in mainstream writing classes. Examines how writing programs have been constructed to include such categories as "basic writer" and how students, teachers, and administrators can get beyond such…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Course Descriptions, Feminism, Higher Education

Soliday, Mary – College Composition and Communication, 1996
Argues for a progressive version of mainstreaming remedial writers through a focus on one student who benefited from a two-semester course responsive to diverse language and cultural backgrounds. Discusses the political dimensions of mainstreaming which are an indelible aspect of writing program administration. (TB)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Cultural Differences, Higher Education, Mainstreaming

Trainor, Jennifer Seibel; Godley, Amanda – College Composition and Communication, 1998
Looks at how teaching basic writing is shaped by the material conditions of teachers working in those programs. Documents reactions of two writing programs on two different campuses to a 1991 statewide directive calling for the removal of all "remedial" courses from state campuses. Describes the programs' transformations after the directive, and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Higher Education, Labor Conditions