Research in Basic Writing
Subtitle: A Bibliographic Sourcebook
Contributors: Michael G. Moran (Editor); Martin J. Jacobi (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: February 15, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780313255649
Subjects: Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies; Writing & editing guides; English Composition; Language Arts & Disciplines; History - General History; Language; Communication; Europe - France; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; Basic writing (Remedial education); Bibliography; English language; Grammar; Rhetoric; Study and teaching
First sentence: A dozen or so years ago, as she was charting in Errors and Expectations (1977) the unknown territory we now call basic writing, Mina Shaughnessy noted with alarm how little we know about the students identified as, among other things, "remedial," "developmental," "non-traditional," "new," or even "handicapped."