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Download full textHarris, Joseph – 1990
The most serious approaches to teaching basic writing in the last 20 years have been framed by the competing metaphors of growth and metaphors of initiation. The growth model pulled attention away from the forms of academic discourse and toward what students could and could not do as writers, and encouraged teachers to respect and work with the…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Acculturation, Basic Writing, Conflict
