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Moreno, Renee M. – College Composition and Communication, 2002
Foregrounds issues of race, ethnicity, and education, and ties together two important issues in teaching basic writing: how social and pedagogical issues in higher education shape possibilities for bicultural students' writings, and how these students can use their developing sense of literacy and their texts to explore identity. Discusses…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Cultural Differences, Ethnography, Higher Education
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Coleman, Charles F. – College Composition and Communication, 1997
Examines phonological transfer in developmental student writing (spelling or word configurations that represent what the writer hears). Examines two discourse features--"by strings" and "topic/comment" sentence structures. Analyzes a developmental writing African American student's essay, demonstrating the power and tension in…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Black Dialects, Black Students
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Gleason, Barbara – College Composition and Communication, 2000
Evaluates a three-year pilot project in mainstreaming basic writers at the City University of New York. Suggests that the social and political contexts of a project need to be taken into account in the earliest stages of evaluation. Claims the empirically verifiable account that researchers sought was compromised by the socio-political forces…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Higher Education, Mainstreaming