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Lisa ThrushENG 571Presentation 1

Success in the Basic Writing Classroom

Politics in Basic Writing Empowered StudentsSchools responsibilitiesTechnology in writing

Important Themes in Basic Writing

Politics in Basic WritingOpen AdmissionsNo Child Left BehindFederal fundingStudent OpportunitiesStandardized TestsAccountability of tests in relation to recognizing student achievementTypes of testsDifferent goalsRepresent knowledgeAlign with curriculum

3Empowered StudentsLearn from mistakes (Shaughnessy)Enter the discourse (Bartholomae) The LocalGeneration gap in the May family (Brandt 7)Mary Cimarolli (ET 8)Vince (Rose)Further researchBuilding community (Rigolino and Freel)

The Schools ResponsibilityStandards for teachers (Rose)Curriculum (Rose, Shaughnessy, Lunsford)Teachers role in the classroomFurther ResearchAndrea Lunsford Mike Rose

5Technology Advances in Writing ClassComputers and writingStudents take risksQuality and quantity of writingComputers for teachingFurther researchCynthia SelfeJames Lockard and Peter D. Abrams

Works CitedBartholomae, David. Inventing the University. The Norton Book of Composition Studies. Ed. Susan Miller. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. 605-630. Print.

---. The Study of Error. College Composition and Communication 31.3 (1980): 253-269. Print.

Brandt, Deborah. Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society. Sam Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

Lockard, James and Peter D. Abrams. Computers for Twenty-first Century Educators. (5th ed.). New York: Longman, 2001.

Lunsford, Andrea. Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer. College English 41.1 (1979): 38-46. Print.

Works CitedRose, Mike. The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University. The Norton Book of Composition Studies. Ed. Susan Miller. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. 586-603. Print.

---. Why School. New York: The New Press, 2009. Print.

Selfe, Cynthia L. Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. The Conference on College Composition and Communication of the National Council of Teachers of English, 1999.

Shaughnessy, Mina. Introduction to Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. The Norton Book of Composition Studies. Ed. Susan Miller. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. 387-396. Print.

Tarpley, Fred, Ed. Memories of Old ET. Silver Leos Guild, 2010.

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