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...
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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
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; CHAPTER ONE Writing Instruction and the Post-Remedial University: Setting the Scene for the Mainstreaming Debate in Basic Writing; I The Controversy Surrounding Mainstreaming: Theory, Politics, and Practice; CHAPTER TWO Revisiting the Importance of Placement and Basic Studies: Evidence of Success; CHAPTER THREE Errors and Economics: Inequality Breeds Remediation; CHAPTER FOUR Ideologies of Access and the Politics of Agency; CHAPTER FIVE Mainstreaming? Eddy, Rivulet, Backwater, Site Specificity
CHAPTER SIX Those Crazy Gates and How They Swing: Tracking the System That Tracks African-American StudentsCHAPTER SEVEN Moving the Margins; II Alternative Configurations for Basic Writing; CHAPTER EIGHT Returning Adults to the Mainstream: Toward a Curriculum for Diverse Student Writers; CHAPTER NINE Rethinking At-Risk Students' Knowledge and Needs: Heroes' Decisions and Students' Quests for Identity and Meaning in a Content Composition Course; CHAPTER TEN Mainstreaming and Other Experiments in a Learning Community; CHAPTER ELEVEN Mainstreaming Writing: What Does This Mean for ESL Students?
CHAPTER TWELVE The Context Determines Our Choice: Curriculum, Students, and FacultyAbout the Authors; Author Index; Subject Index
