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Mainstreaming basic writers : politics and pedagogies of access

Author: Gerri McNenny; Sallyanne H Fitzgerald
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gerri McNenny; Sallyanne H Fitzgerald
ISBN: 0805835733 9780805835731 0805835741 9780805835748
OCLC Number: 45308796
Description: xvii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1 Writing Instruction and the Post-Remedial University: Setting the Scene for the Mainstreaming Debate in Basic Writing / Gerri McNenny 1 --
I 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 Context Determines Our Choice: Curriculum, Students, and Faculty / Sallyanne H. Fitzgerald 215.
Responsibility: edited by Gerri McNenny ; associate editor, Sallyanne H. Fitzgerald.
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