Mainstreaming basic writers : politics and pedagogies of access / edited by Gerri McNenny ; associate editor, Sallyanne H. Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McNenny, Gerri.

Fitzgerald, Sallyanne H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Basic writing (Remedial education).

Mainstreaming in education.

Physical Description:

xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Summary:

Explores the many facets of the mainstreaming movement in college-level basic writing that are currently being debated. Examines the theoretical, political, & pedagogical concerns that arise as pressures push colleges to eliminate basic writing programs.

Contents:

1 Writing Instruction and the Post-Remedial University: Setting the Scene for the Mainstreaming Debate in Basic Writing / Gerri McNenny 1

I The Controversy Surrounding Mainstreaming: Theory, Politics, and Practice

2 Revisiting the Importance of Placement and Basic Studies: Evidence of Success / Edward M. White 19

3 Errors and Economics: Inequality Breeds Remediation / Ira Shor 29

4 Ideologies of Access and the Politics of Agency / Mary Soliday 55

5 Mainstreaming? Eddy, Rivulet, Backwater, Site Specificity / Terence G. Collins, Kim Lynch 73

6 Those Crazy Gates and How They Swing: Tracking the System That Tracks African-American Students / Eleanor Agnew, Margaret McLaughlin 85

7 Moving the Margins / Marti Singer 101

II Alternative Configurations for Basic Writing

8 Returning Adults to the Mainstream: Toward a Curriculum for Diverse Student Writers / Barbara Gleason 121

9 Rethinking At-Risk Students' Knowledge and Needs: Heroes' Decisions and Students' Quests for Identity and Meaning in a Content Composition Course / Rosemary Winslow, Monica Mische 145

10 Mainstreaming and Other Experiments in a Learning Community / Mark Wiley 173

11 Mainstreaming Writing: What Does This Mean for ESL Students? / Trudy Smoke 193

12 The Context Determines Our Choice: Curriculum, Students, and Faculty / Sallyanne H. Fitzgerald 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805835733

0805835741

OCLC:

45308796