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Peer reviewedGray-Rosendale, Laura – Journal of Basic Writing, 1996
Traces scholarly constructions of basic writers' identities. Asks what those students who are labeled basic writers are accomplishing in their speech and writing. Offers a speculative model for analyzing basic writing student discourse. Uses that model to examine the language used in a basic writing classroom. Reviews the implications of such work…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Peer reviewedColeman, 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
