This volume examines the ways in which college students engage in online discussions about, and debates over, their relative authority in postsecondary literacy education. Spotlighting sites of online extra-institutional discourse that challenge what faculty believe about the interconnected acts of reading and writing, as well as the purposes of teacher evaluation, this book argues that while college faculty frequently enact student-centred pedagogies, and just as frequently employ various technologies in their teaching, non-"academic" technologies continue to be the most active venue for...

This volume examines the ways in which college students engage in online discussions about, and debates over, their relative authority in postsecondary literacy education. Spotlighting sites of online extra-institutional discourse that challenge what faculty believe about the interconnected acts of reading and writing, as well as the purposes of teacher evaluation, this book argues that while college faculty frequently enact student-centred pedagogies, and just as frequently employ various technologies in their teaching, non-"academic" technologies continue to be the most active venue for...

Guidance on teaching writing to first-generation college students. Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation college students inform literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom. Essays, written by scholar-teachers in the field of rhetoric and composition, discuss best practices for teaching first-generation students in writing classrooms, centers, programs, and other environments. The collection considers how first-gen students of different demographics interact with and affect literacy instruction in a variety of public and...