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Pacello, James – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Many developmental writing courses in colleges focus on teaching students isolated skills, with little emphasis on how such skills are applicable to the actual process of writing. This article focuses on capturing the perspectives of students enrolled in a developmental writing course designed around an explicit process-oriented pedagogy. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Basic Writing, Student Attitudes, Writing Skills
Molloy, Sean; Fonville, Silvester; Salam, Abdus – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
Since the 1970s, legacy Basic Writing systems have survived despite growing resistance grounded in an increasing awareness of their troubling roots and harmful effects. In this article, two 2017 basic writing students and their teacher conduct a mixed-method "postmortem" examination of the now eliminated zero-credit course and writing…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College English, College Students, School Desegregation
Bruno, Gregory – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
As the cost of college tuition continues to soar, community colleges and state and local governments offer a wide range of access and opportunity programs to best serve low-income and academically underprepared students. In this article, I present a case study of two instructors, both of whom regularly teach Basic Writing courses at the community…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Teachers, College Faculty, Community Colleges
John Paul Tassoni – Journal of Basic Writing, 2024
This narrative essay describes a basic writing instructor's engagement with student confusion in a hybrid Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) course. The story examines the ways confusion can mark sites of engagement for students and teachers and how ALP courses, in particular, might mediate effective (and ineffective) forms of confusion.
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Teachers, Blended Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
Crank, Virginia; Heaser, Sara; Thoune, Darci L. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
This article describes a revision of a first-year writing program curriculum using the pillars of the Reimagining the First-Year Program. The authors adapted principles related to mindset and habits of mind from both college retention scholarship and composition scholarship. After developing a research project in order to understand what elements…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Writing Instruction, Enrollment Influences, School Holding Power
Gray-Rosendale, Laura – Journal of Basic Writing, 2018
This essay extends arguments made by Gray-Rosendale in two earlier essays published within the Journal of Basic Writing (1999 and 2006), ones that focused on how basic writers' identities were being constructed in our scholarship. She traced developments in various approaches--developmentalist and grammar-based models (1970s), academic discourse…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Identification, Teaching Methods, Assignments
Parisi, Hope – Journal of Basic Writing, 2018
The question of who is the basic writer threads the history of Basic Writing, characterizing many disciplinary tensions and concerns. When traced to Basic Writing's beginnings as part of open admissions at CUNY, the question often links to Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" as a telling of basic writers' language deficiencies. This…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Student Characteristics, History, Open Enrollment
Ihara, Rachel – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
This article argues that the national trend to replace developmental writing programs with mainstreaming and corequisite courses presents an important opportunity to reconsider writing goals and assessment practices for all students. This insight emerges in part from data collected over several semesters at one community college, which showed that…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Freshman Composition, Acceleration (Education), Educational Change
Horner, Bruce – Across the Disciplines, 2018
Dominant narratives of disciplinarity that WAC/WID confronts conflate disciplines with departments and material institutional structures, such as departments and professional organizations--what is here called "departmentality." The relative autonomy of disciplinarity from departmentality means that challenges to foundational concepts of…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Intellectual Disciplines, Departments, Misconceptions
Bernstein, Susan Naomi – Journal of Basic Writing, 2018
This essay, in letter form, introduces graduate-level study in Basic Writing to practicum students. It situates teaching practices within Basic Writing histories and pedagogies, and invites readers to focus widely, read deeply, and keep writing. Included are lessons from Bernstein's experiences in presenting David Bowie's artistic and cultural…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Basic Writing, Practicums, Writing Instruction
Wilson, Sarah Bartlett – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Basic writing, which developed as a field within the larger discipline of rhetoric and composition, has a tumultuous past and an uncertain future. What began as an academic response to a perceived literacy crisis with the rise of open admissions in the late 1960s has continued to grow and reinvent its structures, theories, and practices as new…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Educational History, Educational Trends, Textbooks
Hall, Kailyn Shartel – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
At a four-year public comprehensive university in 2017, a mandated attempt to implement a corequisite model for Basic Writing education challenged assumptions about the types of students enrolled in the existing program. Students, who by institutional placement measures (ACT scores) would be placed in First-Year Writing, were voluntarily enrolling…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Barriers, Advanced Placement
Reid, Lynn – Journal of Basic Writing, 2018
Though practitioners in Basic Writing studies often refer to "the politics of remediation," there are few pedagogical models that address how to teach this facet of professional life to graduate students and emerging professionals. Most often, this knowledge is transmitted through storytelling, namely narrative-based accounts of Basic…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Remedial Programs, Graduate Study, Reading Assignments
Buell, Marcia Z. – Journal of Basic Writing, 2018
This article describes a version of the Seminar in Basic Writing Theory and Pedagogy, a Master's level course that Marcia Buell taught in summer 2017 at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Buell argues that because many MA students enter graduate courses in Basic Writing expecting that the course will show them how to "fix"…
Descriptors: Seminars, Masters Programs, Basic Writing, Graduate Students
O'Sullivan Sachar, Cassandra – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This study examined the relationship between metacognitive revision and writing achievement in one instructor's developmental writing courses. Since American students often have had little strategic writing instruction in high school, they frequently come to college as non-proficient writers. By focusing on self-improvement rather than agonizing…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Metacognition, Writing Strategies, Writing Improvement