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Caldwell, David; DeRusha, Jeanine; Stanton-Hammond, Gail; Straight, Steve; Sullivan, Patrick – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
In this article, the authors report on an assessment project they recently conducted at their open admissions community college to assess student work at the end of the basic writing sequence. The authors' focus for this project was on the way students used essay structure. They gathered artifacts from students who were deemed "ready" by…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Program Effectiveness, Open Enrollment, College Outcomes Assessment
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Lamos, Steve – College Composition and Communication, 2008
This essay analyzes the ways in which subtly but powerfully racist ideologies of language and literacy shaped the institutional development of one writing program for "high-risk" African American college students during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It further theorizes the value of such institutional analysis for counteracting racism…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Ideology, Writing Instruction