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Stanley, Sarah – Journal of Basic Writing, 2018
Against a Racial Real backdrop, I argue for consciously adopting a sociocultural approach to style in linguistically and racially diverse Basic Writing classrooms. To make this argument, I focus on a multilingual writer named Tejada, who reveals how she had internalized a racialized stereotypical discourse about herself as a minority--a discourse…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Writing Instruction, Basic Writing, Multilingualism
Bourgeois, Pamela – CEA Forum, 2008
This article addresses the issue of basic writing, demonstrating how one university's basic writing program acts as a steward of writing. The assumption that basic writers only consume resources rather than contribute to academic excellence is rejected. What links the author responses to this issue is a publication of student writing entitled…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Higher Education, College English

McAndrew, Donald A. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990
Examines the relationship between handwriting speed and the syntactic complexity of the finished piece of writing. Reports that findings support previous research that describes differences in syntax of basic and traditional writers. Concludes that writing teachers should encourage college students to write rapidly as they draft their pieces. (MM)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Handwriting, Higher Education, Writing Processes

Cody, Jim – Journal of Basic Writing, 1996
Advances the idea of using the workshop format for basic writers' development as writers. Finds that workshops generate conversations and discussions that encourage social, political, and economic awareness to help basic writers discover who and where they are in society. (PA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Expressive Language, Higher Education, Student Development

Parisi, Hope A. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1994
Demonstrates that students who attempt graphically to represent their own writing process increase their involvement and self-awareness while validating their new writing behaviors and come to understand their role in managing the unique complexities of their own composing process. (SR)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Illustrations, Metacognition

Keithley, Zoe – Journal of Basic Writing, 1992
Presents the results of a questionnaire which asked students to distinguish the most helpful instructional factors and activities aiding their writing progress. Concludes that the student's voice is his/her most accessible tool for progress, that acceptance of the student's voice is crucial, and that the speaking-writing connection is the most…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods

Villanueva, Victor, Jr. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1997
Details, in a personal narrative, some techniques which have proved effective for enabling student success in the basic writing classroom. (PA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Communication, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness

Deming, Mary P.; Valeri-Gold, Maria – Reading Horizons, 1992
Discusses the use of computers in teaching basic writing to college students. Offers computer exercises and activities which foster a whole-language curriculum. (PRA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computers, Higher Education, Teaching Methods

Young, Morris – Journal of Basic Writing, 1996
Explores ways basic writers theorize identities that locate them in the larger culture. States that as part of the composing process students need to locate their own notions of the writer in a dominant culture that has labeled them "at risk." Studies student texts for "theories" about writing and identity; moves to construct…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Cultural Context, High Risk Students, Higher Education

LoPresti, Gene – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1989
Discusses a case study which suggests that educators should reexamine the way they presently teach reading and writing. Focuses on some of the educational/psychological contexts that influence the tacit reading/writing model of the subject. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Higher Education, Reading Ability

Johnson, Sarah Coprich – Journal of Basic Writing, 1995
Examines the use of music as a springboard for writing. Provides an explanation of how basic writing students can use music-writing activities to discover meaningful topics and ideas, to develop specific supporting details, and to understand the connections between purpose and audience. (RS)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Basic Writing, Class Activities, Higher Education
Collins, James L.; Collins, Kathleen M. – 1994
Writing processes and writing skills are highly compatible, but only if "writing skills" are defined as genuinely helpful learning strategies rather than prescriptive techniques or isolated forms and rules. Increased skill is a product of meaningful practice, not prescriptive instructions or isolated drills. In the present context, the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Skill Development

Hagemann, Julie Ann – English Journal, 2003
Suggests that the best writing curriculum for second language students is one that balances content and form, that calls for an attention to writing process and to written product, and that draws on knowledge from both teacher and student. Describes the "focus on form" approach the author uses in her mainstream basic writing class, as well as some…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Grammar

Lu, Min-zhan – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Argues that Mina Shaughnessy's view of language as a politically innocent vehicle of meaning overlooks basic writers' need to confront the dissonance they experience between academic and other discourses. Suggests educators need to abandon the limitations of the essentialist view of language informing their pedagogy. (KEH)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Higher Education

Eves-Bowden, Anmarie – Journal of Basic Writing, 2001
Explores basic writing students' current writing processes, their thoughts on their writing, and their introduction to a structured writing process model. Suggests that educators can assist basic writers in becoming successful college writers by introducing them to a structured writing process model while also helping them to become reflective…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Metacognition