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Direct linkMolloy, Sean – Journal of Basic Writing, 2012
Mina Shaughnessy continues to exert powerful influences over Basic Writing practices, discourses and pedagogy thirty-five years after her death: Basic Writing remains in some ways trapped by Shaughnessy's legacy in what Min-Zhan Lu labeled as essentialism, accommodationism and linguistic innocence. High-stakes writing tests, a troubling hallmark…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Tests, High Stakes Tests, Writing Instruction
