"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

From studying for a master's degree, doctorate, to being a researcher, only a few people really learn how to write academic theses. During the study period, tutors generally give students professional ...

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 ...

If you ever felt the urge to write but found yourself held back by a nagging voice of doubt? What if you could silence that voice and let your creativity flow freely? Many writing beginners struggle ...

Usually when it comes to writing, mathematics and statistics probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. However, quite the number of us have had to face an instance where a source based on ...

Areas of interest: Race, Racism, and Writing Instruction; Institutional Critique; Academic Labor Issues; Literacy Studies Steve Lamos is Associate Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and ...

I never met David Bartholomae, the longtime University of Pittsburgh professor of English who passed away on April 4 at the age of 75, but he changed the trajectory of my life. Bartholomae is a ...