Transiciones : Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High school and College / Todd Ruecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruecker, Todd Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Spanish speakers.

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Spanish speakers.

Language arts--Remedial teaching.

Language arts.

Hispanic Americans--Education (Higher).

Hispanic Americans.

Hispanic Americans--Education (Secondary).

First-generation college students--United States.

First-generation college students.

United States.

Physical Description:

219 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Utah State University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Transiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gathered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary institutions reveal a rich picture of the conflicted experience of these students as they attempted to balance the demands of schooling with a variety of personal responsibilities. Todd Ruecker explores the disconnect between students' writing experiences in high school and higher education and examines the integral role that writing plays in college. Considering the almost universal requirement that students take a writing class in their critical first year of college, he contends that it is essential for composition researchers and teachers to gain a fuller understanding of the role they play in supporting and hindering Latina and Latino students' transition to college. Arguing for situating writing programs in larger discussions of high school/college alignment, student engagement, and retention, Transiciones raises the profile of what writing programs can do while calling composition teachers, administrators, and scholars to engage in more collaboration across the institution, across institutions, and across disciplines to make the transition from high school to college writing more successful for this important group of students. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 College Decisions and Institutional Disparities 24

3 Struggling Transitions 44

4 Difficult but Successful Transitions 65

5 Smooth Transitions 99

6 An Unpredictable Transition 128

7 Contextualizing Transitions to College 141

8 The Role of Composition Researchers, Teachers, and Administrators 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874219753

0874219752

OCLC:

879642328