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Download full textDunbar-Odom, Donna – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1996
Rereading the history of basic writing can serve as a context for and a springboard to a reading of selected contemporary basic writing textbooks. For critical scrutiny, articles by Joseph Harris and David Bartholomae offer retellings of the history of basic writing, retellings that challenge the more "heroic" tellings that have become…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Basic Writing, Educational History, Higher Education
