This essay considers the critical need for pre-service and in-service basic writing faculty to define and enact a professional identity, specifically within the context of faculty development and graduate course settings. The essay describes a graduate course in teaching basic writing offered primarily online with four in-person weekend workshops.…

Provides a starting point for critical exploration of African-American students' computer-based interaction. Analyzes how an African-American male student negotiates his multiple subjectivities in a largely White university setting and in a male-dominated society. Argues for accepting diverse and sometimes contradictory subject positions of all…