Class in the Composition Classroom considers what college writing instructors should know about their working-class students--their backgrounds, experiences, identities, learning styles, and skills--in order to support them in the classroom, across campus, and beyond. In this volume, contributors explore the nuanced and complex meaning of "working class" and the particular values these college writers bring to the classroom.

The real college experiences of veterans, rural Midwesterners, and trade unionists show that what it means to be working class is not obvious or easily...