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Direct linkRitter, Kelly – College Composition and Communication, 2008
This article examines Yale's "Awkward Squad" of "basic" writers between 1920 and 1960. Using archival materials that illustrate the socioeconomic conditions of this early, "pre-Shaughnessy" site of remedial writing instruction, I argue for a re-definition of "basic" in composition studies using local, institutional values rather than generic…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing (Composition), Archives, Writing Instruction
