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Spigelman, Candace – Composition Studies, 2001
Notes that writing instructors want to resist authoritarian classroom arrangements because they want students to be active in their education and in their lives. Describes efforts to develop a "new model of authority, a new space," using peer group leaders, advanced standing students who facilitated writing groups in a first-year basic writing…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, Cooperation, Freshman Composition
