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Peele, Thomas; Stoll, Vivian; Stella, Andréa – Journal of Basic Writing, 2018
The authors of this essay discuss the impact of corpus collection and analysis on the writing program at The City College of New York, CUNY, the digital literacies encouraged by the corpus collection process, and how corpus studies can be used to support genre awareness and build communities of practice in basic writing classrooms and among…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Graduate Students, Discourse Communities
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Gray-Rosendale, Laura – Journal of Basic Writing, 1996
Traces scholarly constructions of basic writers' identities. Asks what those students who are labeled basic writers are accomplishing in their speech and writing. Offers a speculative model for analyzing basic writing student discourse. Uses that model to examine the language used in a basic writing classroom. Reviews the implications of such work…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities