Prescribing Without Defining
Initiation as a Goal
Problems with Initiation as a Goal
A Point of Crisis
The Vulnerability of Basic Writing
The Crisis as Reflected in the Journal of Basic Writing
Climate Change for Basic Writing
Responding to Calls to Eliminate Basic Writing
“Our Apartheid”
Context-Contingent Definitions
“Basic Writing at a Political Crossroads”
Capitulating on Definition
Error
Teaching Complication 1: The Need for Complexity
Teaching Complication 2: The Need for Tolerance
Teaching Complication 3: The Need (Still) for Correctness
Teaching Complication 4: The Need for Process Analysis
Teaching Complication 5: The Need for Interpretation
Teaching Complication 6: The Need for Negotiation
Teaching Complication 7: The Need for (and Lack of) Consensus
Assessment
Teaching to the Test
Teacher Resistance to Institutionally Imposed Testing
State-Mandated Testing
Teaching
The Importance of Process
Cognitive Schemes and Their Limitations
A Grab Bag of Instructional Strategies
Facts, Artifacts and Counterfacts: A Redefined Teaching Project
The Politics of Identity
Literacy as a Social Practice
Experiments in Mainstreaming
The Fragmentation of the Teaching Enterprise
Error
Insights from Linguistics
Error Analysis
Upholding the Standard
Changing Attitudes toward Error
Error Recognition
Assessment
Foundational Work in Mass Testing
Disillusionment with Holistic Assessment
Not How to Test, But Whether
Alternatives to Established Assessments
High Schools as Gatekeepers
Process
Writing Process(es)
Thinking Process(es)
Cognition or Discourse Conventions?
Academic Literacy
Attitudes and Identities
The Conflict Within, the Conflict Without
Case Studies of Conflict and Struggle
Political Portents
Questioning the Value of Remediation
Real-World Repercussions
Basic Writing Under Siege from Within
Arguing for Abolition
The Great Unraveling
Basic Writing Revised
Public Policy and Basic Writing
Alternative Program Structures
Basic Writing for the Twenty-First Century
Anticipating the Need
Examining Costs and Benefits
Appendix: Basic Writing Resources
Bedford Bibliographies for Teachers of Writing
CompPile
Conference on Basic Writing
Basic Writing e-Journal
CBW Facebook Page
CBW-L
CBW SIG at CCCC
CBW Workshop on Basic Writing
National Survey of Basic Writing Programs
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA)
International Writing Centers Association
Journal of Basic Writing (JBW)
Journal of Developmental Education
National Association for Developmental Education (NADE)
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