Framed by historic developments—from the Open Admissions movement of the 1960s and
1970s to the attacks on remediation that intensified in the 1990s and beyond—Basic Writing …

In 1996, the State University of New York at New Paltz developed the Supplemental Writing
Workshop Program for its basic writing students in response to public pressure to …

In this article, we assess the status of basic writing early in the twenty-first century. Beginning
with a discussion of the attacks on BW that intensified during the 1990s and early 2000s …

In this essay I conduct a Critical Discourse Analysis of the language surrounding the
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office latest plan to curb remediation, the …

While basic writing has made a public turn by incorporating service learning and community
literacy pedagogies, basic writers are not often discussed in the vast and growing research …

This essay examines two narratives for US higher education—the tradition of access and the
current moment of globalized expansion—to understand how policies about access and …

Abstract The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) is recognized as a leader in
Basic Writing reform for community colleges due to their Accelerated Learning Program …

Community colleges are trying to reform their placement procedures from use of a single
placement test score to a system that collects multiple measures to be used either as a …

In this autoethnographically-infused natural history of discourse (NHD)(Silverstein and
Urban, 1996; Slembrouck, 2001), I use methods from critical discourse studies (CDS) to …

The dissertation's subject is the California State University (CSU) English Council, an
affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English established to support the English …