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<p>The essays selected for this volume address debilitating assumptions that place both students and teachers of basic writing, as well as the discipline itself, on the margins of educational, economic, and political localities of influence. The collection presents readers with previously published essays that together depict the fundamental and shifting theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical assumptions of basic writing instruction over the past two decades. Arranged chronologically, the essays examine such issues as defining basic writers, the phenomenology of error, cognitivism and writing instruction, the social construction of remediation, and the politics of basic writing pedagogy in a postmodern world. They collectively present what the contributors perceive as some of the most enduring and important debates in the field. At the same time, they illustrate that neither the basic writing classroom nor recent scholarship need to be <i>intellectually</i> marginalized locations. <br> <br> By including primarily essays published between 1987 and 1997, the contributors bring together essays that historicize the preceding decades of scholarship and also anticipate the future o

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Author

Kay Halasek and Nels P. Highberg

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781880393291

Category

reference

Subjects

Education, Language Learning, Reference

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14