Preface
Introduction
Alternative Table of Contents
1. Transitions from High School to Higher Education, from Community to College
2. Diversity and Democracy
3. Classroom Practices – Practical Pedagogies
4. Questions and Conundrums for Research and Administration
PART ONE: BASIC WRITING: PERSEPCTIVES FROM THE FIELD
Chapter 1: Basic Writing: Teachers’ Perspectives
Mina Shaughnessy, Some Needed Research on Writing
Adrienne Rich, Teaching Language in Open Admissions
Mike Rose, Remediation at a Crossroads
Chapter 2: Basic Writing: Students’ Perspectives
Jane Maher, Raw Material
Marc Lamont Hill, Wounded Healing: Forming a Storytelling Community in Hip-Hop Lit
Justin Hudson, The Brick Tower
PART TWO: Literacy and Literacies
Chapter 3: Processes of Writing and Research
Susan Naomi Bernstein, Basic Writing: In Search of a New Map
Jonikka Charlton, Seeing is Believing: Writing Studies with "Basic Writing" Students
Chapter 4: Intersected Literacies: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking
Deborah M. Sánchez and Eric J. Paulson, Critical Language Awareness and Learners in College Transitional English
David A. Jolliffe and Allison Harl, Texts of Our Institutional Lives: Studying the "Reading Transition" from High School to College: What Are Our Students Reading and Why?
Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning with New Literacies
Valerie Kinloch, Harlem, Art, and Literacy and Documenting "Harlem Is Art"/ "Harlem As Art"
Shannon Carter, The Way Literacy Lives
Marisa A. Klages and J. Elizabeth Clark, New Worlds of Errors and Expectations: Basic Writers and Digital Assumptions
Chapter 6: Learning Academic English: Approaches to Grammar and Style
Leif Fearn and Nancy Farnan, When Is a Verb? Using Functional Grammar to Teach Writing
Laura R. Micciche, Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar
PART THREE: ENGAGING DIFFERENCE
Chapter 7: Classic Perspectives on Multicultural Teaching and Learning
Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
June Jordan, Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan
bell hooks, Embracing Change: Teaching in a Multicultural World
Chapter 8: Transforming Pedagogies
Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Geoffery L. Cohen, Julio Garcia, Rachel Sumner, Jonathan C. Cook, and Nancy Apfel, Improving Minority Academic Performance: How a Values-Affirmation Intervention Works
Amy E. Winans, Cultivating Racial Literacy in White Segregated Settings: Emotions as Site of Ethical Engagement and Inquiry
Chapter 9: Learning Differences
Lennard Davis, From The Rule of Normalcy
Patrick L. Bruch, Interpreting and Implementing Universal Design in Basic Writing
Chapter 10: English Language Learners
Gloria M. Rodriguez and Lisceth Cruz, The Transition to College of English Learner and Undocumented Immigrant Students: Resource and Policy Implications
Martha Clark Cummings, "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You": Self-Disclosure and Lesbian and Gay Identity in the ESL Writing Classroom
Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, English May Be My Second Language, But I’m Not ESL
PART FOUR: COLLABORATION, ASSESSMENT, AND CHANGE
Chapter 11: Writing Centers
Brad Hughes, Paula Gillespie, and Harvey Kail, What They Take with Them: Findings from the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project
International Writing Centers Association, Position Statement on Two-Year College Writing Centers
Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, and Elizabeth H. Boquet, Antiracism Work and Writing Center Practice: Appendix
Chapter 12: Access, Placement, Assessment, and Retention: Models and Challenges
George Otte and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk, Assessment
Peter Adams, Sarah Gearhart, Robert Miller, and Anne Roberts, The Accelerated Learning Program: Throwing Open the Gates
Gregory R. Glau, Stretch at 10: A Progress Report on Arizona State University’s Stretch Program
Resources for Teaching and Research
Keeping Journals and Building a Course Archive
Writing Conference Proposals and Articles
Teaching, Advocacy, and Action
Writing Studies: Creating Syllabi from Teaching Developmental Writing
Additional Considerations