Success in the Basic Writing Classroom

1. Success in the Basic Writing Classroom Lisa Thrush ENG 571 Presentation 1

2. Important Themes in Basic Writing School’s responsibilities Technology in writing Politics in Basic Writing Empowered Students

3. Open Admissions • No Child Left Behind • Federal funding • Student Opportunities • Standardized Tests • Accountability of tests in relation to recognizing student achievement • Types of tests • Different goals • Represent knowledge • Align with curriculum Politics in Basic Writing

4. Learn from mistakes (Shaughnessy) • Enter the discourse (Bartholomae) • The Local • Generation gap in the May family (Brandt 7) • Mary Cimarolli (ET 8) • Vince (Rose) • Further research • Building community (Rigolino and Freel) Empowered Students

5. Standards for teachers (Rose) • Curriculum (Rose, Shaughnessy, Lunsford) • Teacher’s role in the classroom • Further Research • Andrea Lunsford • Mike Rose The School’s Responsibility

6. Computers and writing • Students take risks • Quality and quantity of writing • Computers for teaching • Further research • Cynthia Selfe • James Lockard and Peter D. Abrams Technology Advances in Writing Class

7. Bartholomae, 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 Cited

8. Rose, 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. Works Cited

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