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Boone, Stephanie D. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
How do institutions and their writing faculties see basic writers? What assumptions about these writers drive writing curricula, pedagogies and assessments? How do writing programs enable or frustrate these writers? How might course design facilitate the outcomes we envision? This article argues that, in order to teach basic writers to enter…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Hollander, Pam – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2010
Herrington & Curtis (2000), building on Goldblatt's (1995) idea of the "sponsoring institution," (p. 48) showed students' need for a personal sense of connection with a "sponsoring discourse" when writing in the academy. As Herrington and Curtis, as well as Goldblatt point out, these "sponsoring discourses" often come from outside the academy.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Basic Writing, Case Studies, Interviews
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Grobman, Laurie – Journal of Basic Writing, 1999
Discusses how basic-writing students' use of the World Wide Web in the dialogic process can advance a number of pedagogical objectives as students enter the "conversation of ideas" through reading and writing. Considers how this technology also necessitates a reconsideration of the relationship between authority, academic discourse, and basic…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Moran, Molly Hurley – Journal of Basic Writing, 2004
The author's therapeutic experience of writing a book about a personal tragedy led her to investigate the fledgling interdisciplinary field of Writing and Healing to see if it holds implications for the teaching of basic writing and also to revisit the debate about personal versus academic writing in the introductory composition class. The result…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hourigan, Maureen M. – 1998
A basic writing course instructor attempted to facilitate her students' survival in the academy by demystifying writing conventions while teaching them how to analyze discourses about literacy, especially in relation to cultural and economic forces. Students were asked to design an ideal basic writing course as a final journal assignment.…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Grammar, Higher Education