Community Colleges and First-Generation Students: Academic Discourse in the Writing Classroom

ISBN-13: 9781137555670 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 200 str.

Jan Osborn

Opis

Community Colleges and First-Generation Students examines how first-generation students from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are initiated into what is known as academic discourse, particularly at the community college. Osborn systematically looks at specific classroom discourses through detailed evidence provided by the diversities represented by the students, and how the students negotiate their identities in terms of the ideological directionality in play.

Recenzje

"The book is addressed to scholars in the fields of academic discourse and academic writing, writing instructors, community college administrators, and those who are interested in academic discourse, community college education, education policy as well as education for social change. ... A very complete, well-exemplified and detailed data analysis and a clear and accessible writing style make the book a successful example of a critical view of the academic writing classroom and an enticing invitation to reflection." (Pamela Olmos-López, Discourse & Society, Vol. 28 (6), 2017)

Spis treści

1. Intersecting Place, Purpose, and Practice: A Community College Context
2. Identities: A Context of Multiplicity
3. Linguistic Ideologies
4. Institutionalized Identities
5. Classroom Discourse
6. Student Voices
7. Homogenizing Identities
8. A Call To Action: What We Say and What We Do

O autorze

Jan Osborn is Assistant Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program in the Department of English at Chapman University, USA.