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Two Classrooms, Two Writing Communities: Urban and Suburban Tenth Graders Learning to Write.
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Sperling, Melanie; Woodlief, Laura – Research in the Teaching of English, 1997
Investigates how classroom communities were created to support students' writing in two contrasting grade-10 English classrooms: one in a low-income urban school with a diverse population, one in a middle-class suburban school. Analyzes class discussions to see how they functioned in creating community. Portrays writing in both classrooms as…
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