"Basic Work and Material Acts" summarizes what we have learned from mainstreaming basic writers in first-year composition at California State University, Chico. We found that "basic writing" as an ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. At a time when many teenagers are consumed by such activities as text-messaging, blogging, and social networking, more middle and high school students than in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent public policy discussions and documents reflect frames that will have profound effects on questions central to teachers of and students ...

Steve Lamos is Associate Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and the English Department. His work focuses on issues of race and racism within U.S. college-level writing instruction, ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...