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Gray-Rosendale, Laura – Journal of Basic Writing, 1996
Traces scholarly constructions of basic writers' identities. Asks what those students who are labeled basic writers are accomplishing in their speech and writing. Offers a speculative model for analyzing basic writing student discourse. Uses that model to examine the language used in a basic writing classroom. Reviews the implications of such work…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities