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Laurence, Patricia – Journal of Basic Writing, 1993
Claims that recent reassessments of Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" and the field of composition in the 1970s overlook the institutional forces that helped shape the rhetoric and methodology of researchers at that time. (HB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Educational History, English Instruction
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Flanders, Marianne; And Others – English in Texas, 1994
Offers descriptions of three class activities involving collaboration between basic composition and freshman composition classes, involving magazine production and peer response. (SR)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Freshman Composition
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Otte, George – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Represents an attempt to define the seriousness of errors by computerized tabulation and in a limited context, because no reliable accounting of general attitudes toward errors exists. (MG)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Basic Writing, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Minot, Walter S.; Gamble, Kenneth R. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Examines the affective characteristics of basic writers and questions the hypothesis that they suffer from high writing apprehension and low self-esteem. Offers evidence of a group of basic writers in a larger group who had both low writing apprehension and high self-esteem. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Self Esteem, Writing Apprehension
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Deming, Mary P.; Valeri-Gold, Maria – Reading Horizons, 1992
Discusses the use of computers in teaching basic writing to college students. Offers computer exercises and activities which foster a whole-language curriculum. (PRA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computers, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Scott, Jerrie Cobb – Journal of Basic Writing, 1993
Identifies two factors that contribute to the recycling of deficit pedagogy in programs targeted for marginalized students: traditional, technocratic definitions of literacy; and "uncritical dysconsciousness" (the acceptance of culturally sanctioned beliefs that, regardless of good intentions, defend the advantages of insiders and the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Sternglass, Marilyn S. – Written Communication, 1993
Presents a case study analyzing the texts produced by a basic writing student in her first three-and-one-half-years of college. Argues that longitudinal studies that examine both personal and academic histories can provide insights about writing development that are not accessible through other research methods. (SR)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
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Henning, Barbara – College English, 1991
Asserts that many composition instructors design courses around theories driven by two narratives of progress: solitary struggle; or earning placement by the dominant social order through passivity. Argues that these approaches are counterproductive and alienate the underclass, ensuring high failure rates at urban colleges and sending students…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Disadvantaged Youth, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
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Miller, Susan – Journal of Basic Writing, 2000
Examines concerns regarding the current external and internal attacks on Basic Writing in relation to the entire field of composition studies. Argues that new "recognition work" is needed in Basic Writing. Exemplifies the possibility of developing the capacity to see local communities not as places to export composition's beneficence, but as…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Involvement, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education
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Crouch, Mary Kay; McNenny, Gerri – Journal of Basic Writing, 2000
Describes both past and more recent efforts by the California State University (CSU) system to come to terms with "remediation." Describes recently mandated collaborations between high school language arts faculty and CSU English faculty to reduce the need for remediation. Describes an ongoing outreach program addressing the needs of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Outreach Programs, Program Descriptions
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Hilgers, Thomas L. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1995
Focuses on two endeavors to improve basic writing: the statement on writing assessment adopted by the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the reauthorization of Chapter 1 funds of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to support educational remediation. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
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Bates, Laura Raidonis – Exercise Exchange, 1998
Describes an exercise for basic writers which encompasses reading, listening, and writing. Finds that Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart" has an effective vocabulary, a first-person conversational tone for the "mad" voice, and a second-person direct address that makes it easy to follow. Notes that inexperienced readers can…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English Instruction
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Horner, Bruce; Trimbur, John – College Composition and Communication, 2002
Identifies in the formation of United States college composition courses a tacit policy of English monolingualism based on a chain of reifications of languages and social identity. Shows this policy continuing in assumptions underlying arguments for and against English Only legislation and basic writers. (SG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College English, Curriculum Design, English Only Movement
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Reynolds, Thomas – Journal of Basic Writing, 2001
Discusses training as a gesture made within institutional power structures that can be influenced in various ways to help bring about good basic writing instruction. Offers questions, observations and discussion with the hope that others will re-consider training as an institutional presence made visible through their own campus configurations of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Educational Environment, English Instruction, Higher Education
Gray-Rosendale, Laura; Baca, Kathleen; Meyers, Alan; Uehling, Karen; Adler-Kassner, Linda; Harrington, Susanmarie; Reynolds, Tom – Composition Studies, 2001
Presents a conversation that is designed to get at the differences in definitions of basic writing across institutional boundaries, divergences in placement procedures and assessment mechanisms, and problems theoretical work has had historically in tackling the issues of central importance to educators and their students. Concludes with…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Secondary Education
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