Recommended Essays

Basic writing reading list from The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing essays:

Adams, Peter Dow.  “Basic Writing Reconsidered.”   Journal of Basic Writing 21.1(1993): 22-36.

Adler-Kassner, Linda.  “Just Writing, Basically: Basic Writers on Basic Writing.”   Journal of Basic Writing 18 (Fall 1999): 69-90.

Adler-Kassner, Linda.  “The Shape of the Form: Working Class Students and the Academic Essay.”   In Teaching Working Class, ed. Sherry Linkon.  Amherst: U of M Press, 1999.

Adler-Kassner, Linda.   “Service Learning in the Basic Writing Classroom.”   BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 1 (1999).<http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/bwe_summer1999.htm>.

Adler-Kassner, LInda.  “Digging a Groundwork for Writing: Community Service Courses and Underprepared Students.”   College Composition and Communication  46, 4 (December 1995): 552-555.

Agnew, Eleanor, and Margaret McLaughlin.  “Basic Writing Class of '93 Five Years Later: How the Academic Paths of Blacks and Whites Diverged."Journal of Basic Writing  18 (Spring 1999): 40-54.

Baker, Tracey, and Peggy Jolly.  “The  “Hard Evidence": Documenting the Effectiveness of a Basic Writing Program.”  Journal of Basic Writing  18 (Spring 1999): 27-39.

Bartholomae, David, and Anthony R. Petrosky.  “Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts: A Basic Reading and Writing Course for the College Curriculum.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  275-306.

Bartholomae, David, et. al.  “Interchanges: Responses to Bartholomae and Elbow.”  College Composition and Communication 46 (February 1995): 84-107.

Bartholomae, David.  “The Study of Error.”  College Composition and Communication 31 (October 1980):  253-269.

Bartholomae, David.   “Inventing the University.”    In When A Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing-Process Problems. Ed. Mike Rose.  New York: Guilford Press, 1985.  134-65.

Bartholomae, David.  “The Politics of Basic Writing.”  Journal of Basic Writing 21.1 (1993): 64-71.

Bartholomae, David.  “Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow.”  College Composition and Communication 46 (February 1995): 62-71.

Bartholomae, David.  “The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum.”  Journal of Basic Writing 12(1): 4-21.

Bartholomae, David.  “Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987. 66-83.

Bawarshi, Anis and Stephanie Pelkowski.   “Postcolonialism and the Idea of a Writing Center.”   The Writing Center Journal 19.2 (Spring/Summer 1999): 41-58.

Bay, Libby.   “Twists, Turns, and Returns:  Returning Adult Students.”  Teaching Developmental Writing:  Background Readings, edited by Susan Naomi Bernstein, Bedford/ St. Martins, 2001.  This essay is reprinted from Teaching English in the Two-Year College, NCTE, 1999.

Bean et. al.   “Should We Invite Students to Write in Home Languages?  Complicating the Yes/No Debate."_____________________

Belanoff, Pat.  “The Myths of Assessment.”  Journal of Basic Writing 10 (1991): 54-67.

Berger, Mary Jo.   “Funding and Support for Basic Writing: Why Is There So Little?”  Journal of Basic Writing 12.1 (1993): 81-89.

Berthoff, Ann E.   “hat Works?  How do We Know?”  Journal of Basic Writing 12.2 (1993): 3-17.

Biser, Eileen, Linda Rubel, and Rose Marie Toscano.  “Mediated Texts: A Heuristic for Academic Writing.”  Journal of Basic Writing 17 (Spring 1998): 56-72.

Biser, Eileen, Linda Rubel, and Rose Marie Toscano.   “Be careful what you ask for:  When basic writers take the rhetorical stage.”   Journal of Basic Writing 21 (Spring 2002):  52-70.

Bizzell, Patricia.  “What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College?”  College Composition and Communication 37 (October 1986): 294-301.

Bizzell, Patricia.  “Literacy in Culture and Cognition.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987. 125-37.

Bizzell, Patricia.  “Basic Writing and the Issue of Correctness, or, What to Do with 'Mixed' Forms of Academic Discourse.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2001): 4-12.

Bizzell, Patricia.  “Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What we Need to Know about Writing.”  Pre/Text 3.3 1982 213-243.

Bloom, Lynn Z.   “A Name with a View.”  Journal of Basic Writing 14.1 (1995): 7-14.

Bloom, Lynn Z.  “Freshman Composition As a Middle Class Enterprise.”  College English 58 (1996): 654-675.

Boylan, Hunter R., and Barbara S. Bonham.  “The Impact of developmental Education Programs.”  Research in Developmental Education 9 (1992): 1-3.

Brammer, Charlotte.   “Linguistic Cultural Capital and Basic Writers.”   Journal of Basic Writing 21 (Spring 2002):16-36.

Briggs, Lynn, and Ann Watts Pailliotet.  “A Story About Grammar and Power.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Fall 1997): 46-61.

Brookfield, Stephen D., Understanding Classroom Dynamics: The Critical Incident Questionnaire, Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings, Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Boston, 2001.

Bruch, Patrick, and Thomas Reynolds.  “Critical Literacy and Basic Writing Textbooks: Teaching Toward a More Just Literacy.”   BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 3 (2000). <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/journal_3_spring2000.htm>.

Bruna, Liza et al.  “Assessing Our Assessments: A Collective Questioning of What Students Need-And Get.”  Journal of Basic Writing 17 (Spring 1998): 73-95.

Butler, John.  “Remedial Writers: The Teacher's Job as Corrector of Papers”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.   557-564.

Clark, J. Milton, and Carol P. Haviland.   “Language and Authority: Shifting the Privilege.”   Journal of Basic Writing 14.1 (1995): 57-66.

Cobb, Jerrie Scott.  “Literacies and Deficits Revisited.”  Journal of Basic Writing  12.1 (1993): 46-56.

Cochran, Effie P.   “Giving Voice to Women in the Basic Writing and Language Minority Classroom.”    Journal of Basic Writing 13.1 (1994): 78-90.

Cody, Jim.  “The Importance of Expressive Language in Preparing Basic Writers for College Writing.”  Journal of Basic Writing 15 (Fall 1996): 95-111.

Cohen, Samuel.   “Tinkering Toward WAC Untopia.”  ________________________________

Coles, Nicholas, and Susan V. Wall.  “Conflict and Power in the Reader-Responses of Adult Basic Writers.”  College English 49 (1987): 298-314.

Collins, James L.   “Basic Writing and the Process Paradigm.”  Journal of Basic Writing 14.2 (1995): 3-18.

Collins, James.  “’The Troubled Text’: History and Language in American Basic Writing Programs.”  Knowledge, Culture, and Power: International Perspectives on Literacy as Policy and Practices, ed. Peter Freebody and Anthony R. Welch. London: Falmer, 1993.

Collins, James L.   “Training Teachers at Basic Writing in the Writing Laboratory.”   College Composition and Communication 33.4 (1982): 426-33.

Collins, Terence G.  “Responds to Ira Shor.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Fall 1997): 95-100.

Collins, Terence, and Melissa Blum.  “Meanness and Failure: Sanctioning Basic Writers.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2001): 13-21.

Connors, Robert J.  “Basic Writing Textbooks: History and Current Avatars.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers. Ed.  Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  259-74.

Connors, Robert,  and Andrea Lunsford.  “The Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research.”  College Composition and Communication 39.4(1988): 395-409.

Counihan, Beth.  “Freshgirls: Coping with Discordant Pedagogies and the Anxiety of Leaving Home.”  Journal of Basic Writing  18 (Spring 1999): 91-105.

Crank, Virginia.  “Asynchronous Electronic Peer Response in a Hybrid Basic Writing Classroom.”  TETYC 32.2 (Dec. 2002): 145-155.

Crowley, Sharon.  “A Response to Ed White's 'The Importance of Placement and Basic Studies.'“  Journal of Basic Writing 15 (Summer 1996): 88-91.

De Beaugrande, Robert,  and Marjean Olson.  “Using a 'Write-Speak-Write' Approach for Basic Writers.”  Journal of Basic Writing 10.2 (1991): 4-32.

DeGenaro, William, and Edward M. White.  “Going Around in Circles: Methodological Issues in Basic Writing Research.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2001): 22-35.

D'Eloia, Sarah.  “The Use and Limits of Grammar.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  373-416.

Deming, Mary P.  “Reading and Writing: Making the Connection for Basic Writers.”   BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 2 (2000). <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/summer_2000_V2N2.htm>.

Dickson, Marcia.  “Learning to Read / Learning to Write.”  BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 1 (1999). <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/bwe_summer1999.htm>.

Dong, Yu Ren.  “The Need to Understand ESL Students’ Native Language Writing Experiences.”   Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings.  Ed. Susan N. Bernstein.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. 288-298.

El-Hindi, Amelia E.   “Connecting Reading and Writing: College Learners’ Metacognitive Awareness.”   (Reprinted in Teaching Developmental Reading: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Background Readings).  Journal of Developmental Education 21: 10-18.

Elbow, Peter.  “Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals.”  College Composition and Communication 46 (February 1995): 72-83.

Elbow, Peter.   “Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing.”   Everyone Can Write.  NY: Oxford UP (2000): 372-378.

Elliot, Norbert.  “Narrative Discourse and the Basic Writer.”  Journal of Basic Writing 14.2 (1995): 19-30.

Emig, Janet.  “Writing as a Mode of Learning.”  College Composition and Communication 28  (1977): 122-128.

English and Nagel.   “Ways of Taking Meaning from Texts: Reading High School and College.”  ____________________

Eves-Bowden, Anmarie.   “What Basic Writers Think About Writing.”   Journal of Basic Writing 20.2 (2001): 71-87.

Farrell, Thomas J.  “Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  27-44.

Fleck, Andrew.  “Instructional Note: ‘We think he means…’: Creating Working Definitions through Small-Group Discussion.”  Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s 2001. 220-225.

Fitzgerald, Sallyanne.  “Basic Writing in One California Community College.”  BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 1 (1999).  <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/bwe_fall_1999.htm>.

Fitzgerald, Sallyanne H.   “Serving Basic Writers: One Community College’s Mission Statements.”   Journal of Basic Writing 22.1 (2003): 5-12.

Fletcher, David C.   “Tutors’ Ideals and Practices.”   Journal of Basic Writing 20  (Spring 2001): 64-76.

Fox, Tom.   “Basic Writing as Cultural Conflict.”   Journal of Education 172 (1990): 65-83.

Fox, Tom.   “Working Against the State: Composition’s intellectual Work for Change”  in Gary Olson, ed. Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work. Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

Gaskins, Jacob C.   “Teaching Writing to Students with Learning Disabilities: The Landmark Method.”___________________

Gay, Pamela.  “Rereading Shaughnessy from a Postcolonial Perspective.”  Journal of Basic Writing 12.2 (1993): 29-40.

Gay, Pamela.  “Dialogizing Response in the Writing Classroom: Students Answer Back.”  Journal of Basic Writing 17 (Spring 1998): 3-17.

Gilyard, Keith.  “Basic Writing, Cost Effectiveness, and Ideology.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2001): 36-42.

Gilyard, Keith and Elaine Richardson.   “Students’ Right to Possibility:  Basic Writing and African American Rhetoric.”   Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 2001.  37-51.

Glau, Gregory R.  “The `Stretch Program:' Arizona State University's New Model of University-level Basic Writing Instruction.”  WPA: Writing Program Administration 20 (1996): 79-91.

Glau, Gregory R.   “Hard Work and Hard Data: Using Statistics to Help Your Program."  The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice.  Eds. Stuart C. Brown and Theresa Enos.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum: 2002.   291-302.

Gleason, Barbara.   “Evaluating Writing Programs in Real Time: The Politics of Remediation.”  College Composition and Communication 51 (2000): 560-588.

Goen, S. and Gillotte-Tropp, H.  “Integrating reading and writing:  A response to the basic writing crisis.”  Journal of Basic Writing, 22.2 (2000): 90-113.

Goode, Dianne.  “Creating a Context for Developmental English.”  Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. 71-77.

Goto, Stanford T.  “Basic Writing and Policy Reform: Why We Keep Talking Past Each Other.”  ___________________

Grabill, Jeffrey T.  “Technology, Basic Writing, and Change.”  Journal of Basic Writing 17 (Fall 1998): 91-105.

Gray, Loretta S., and Paula Heuser.   “Nonacademic Professionals' Perception of Usage Errors.”   Journal of Basic Writing 22 (2003): 50-70.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura.  “Revising the Political in Basic Writing Scholarship.”  Journal of Basic Writing 15.2 (1996): 24-49.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura.  “Inessential Writings: Shaughnessy's Legacy in a Socially Constructed Landscape.”  Journal of Basic Writing  19.2 (1998): 43-75.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura.  “Investigating Our Discursive History: JBW and the Construction of the 'Basic Writer's' Identity.”  Journal of Basic Writing 18 (Fall 1999): 108-35.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura, Loyola K. Bird, and Judith F. Bullock.  “Rethinking the Basic Writing Frontier: Native American Students’ Challenge To Our Histories”  Journal of Basic Writing. 22.1 (2003): 71-106.

Green, Ann E..  “My Uncle’s Guns.”  Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. 35-44

Greenberg, Karen L.  “Responds to Ira Shor.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Fall 1997): 90-94.

Greenberg, Karen L.  “Research on Basic Writers: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987. 187-207.

Greenberg, Karen.  “A Response to Ira Shor's 'Our Apartheid: Writing Instruction and Inequality.'“  Journal of Basic Writing 16.2 (1997): 90-94.

Greenberg, Karen L.  “The Politics of Basic Writing.”  Journal of Basic Writing 12.1 (1993): 64-71.

Grego, Rhonda, and Nancy Thompson.  “Repositioning Remediation: Renegotiating Composition's Work in the Academy.”  College Composition and Communication 47.1(1996): 62-84.

Grobman, Laurie.  “Building Bridges To Academic Discourse: The Peer Group Leader in Basic Writing Peer Response Groups.”  Journal of Basic Writing 18 (Fall 1999): 47-68.

Grobman, Laurie.  “`I Found It On the Web, So Why Can't I Put It In My Paper?': Authorizing Basic Writers.”  Journal of Basic Writing  18 (Spring 1999): 76-90.

Grobman, Laurie.   “(Re)Writing Youth: Basic Writing, Youth Culture, and Social Change.”   Journal of Basic Writing  20.1 (2001): 5-26.

Gruber, Sibylle.  “On the Other Side of the Electronic Circuit: A Virtual Remapping of Border Crossings.”  Journal of Basic Writing  18 (Spring 1999): 55-75.

Gunner, Jeanne, and Gerri McNenny.  “Retrospection as Prologue.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Spring 1997): 3-12.

Gunner, Jeanne.  “Iconic Discourse: The Troubling Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19.2 (1998): 25-42.

Gunner, Jeanne.  “The Status of Basic Writing Teachers: Do We Need a `Maryland Resolution'?”   Journal of Basic Writing 12.1 (1993): 57-63.

Gunner, Jeanne. “Afterthoughts on Motive.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16.1 (1997): 3-6.

Hanson, Sandra Sellers, and Leonard Vogt.  “A Variation on Peer Critiquing.”   A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  575-583.

Harley, Kay, and Sally I. Cannon.  “Failure: The Student's or the Assessment's.”  Journal of Basic Writing 15 (Summer 1996): 70-87.

Haswell, Rich.   “Dark Shadows: The Fate of Writers at the Bottom,”  College Composition and Communication 39 (Oct. 1988): 303-315.

Harrington, Susanmarie and Linda Adler-Kassner.  “The Dilemma That Still Counts: Basic Writing at a Political Crossroads.”  Journal of Basic Writing X.X, 1998: 1-24.

Harrington, Susanmarie.  “The Representation of Basic Writers in Basic Writing Scholarship, or Who is Quentin Pierce?”  Journal of Basic Writing 18. (Fall 1999): 91-107.

Harris, Joseph.  “Negotiating the Contact Zone.”  Journal of Basic Writing 14.1(1995): 27-42.

Harris, Joseph.   “Beyond Community: From the Social to the Material.”  ____________________

Harris, Muriel, and Katherine E. Rowan.  “Explaining Grammatical Concepts.”  Journal of Basic Writing 6 (Fall `989): 21-41.

Hartwell,Patrick.  “Grammar, Grammar, and the Teaching of Grammar.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  348-372.

Hebb, Judith.   “Mixed Forms of Academic Discourse: A Continuum of Language Possibility.”   Journal of Basic Writing  21.2 (2002): 21-36.

Hilgers, Thomas.  “Basic Writing Curricula and Good Assessment Practices.”  Journal of Basic Writing (Fall 1995).

Hillenbrand, Lisa.  “Assessment of ESL Students in Mainstream College Composition.”  Teaching English in the  Two-Year College  21.2 (May 1994): 125-130.

Hindman, Jane E.  “Reinventing the University: Finding the Place for Basic Writers.”  Journal of Basic Writing 21.2(1993): 55-76

Hindman. JaneE.  “Inventing Academic Discourse: Teaching (and Learning) Marginal Poise and Fugitive Truth.”  Journal of Basic Writing 18 (Fall 1999): 23-46.

Horner, Bruce.  “Discoursing Basic Writing.”  College Composition and Communication 47.2(1996): 199-222.

Horner, Bruce.  “Rethinking the 'Sociality' of Error: Teaching Editing as Negotiation.”  Rhetoric Review 11.1 (1992): 172-199.

Hull, Glenda.  “Research on Error and Correction.”  Perspectives on Research and Scholarship in Composition.  Ed. Ben W. McClelland and Timothy R. Donovan.  New York: MLA.  162-184.

Hull, Glynda, Mike Rose, K. Fraser, and M. Castellano.  “Remediation as Social Construct: Perspectives from an Analysis of Classroom Discourse.”  College Composition and Communication 42 (1991): 299-329.

Hull,Glynda and  Mike Rose.  “This Wooden Shack Place": The logic of an unconventional reading.”  College Composition and Communication 41.3 (1990): 287-298.

Hunter, Paul.  “`Waiting for Aristotle' in the Basic Writing Movement.”  College English 54 (1992): 914-27.

Hunter, Paul and Nadine Pearce.  “Basic Writers: The Writing Process and Written Products.”  Teaching English in  the Two-Year College 14 (Dec. 1987), 252-64.

Hurley, Kay, and Sally I. Cannon.  “Failure: The Student’s or the Assessment’s?”  Journal of Basic Writing 15.1 (1996): 70-87.

Jackman, Mary Kay.  “When the Personal Becomes Professional: Stories from Re-entry Adult Women Learners about Family, Work, and School.”  Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings.  Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.  Originally published in Composition Studies (27.2): 53-67.

Jones, Billie J.  “Are You Using? Textbook Dependency and Breaking the Cycle.”  BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 3 (2000). <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/journal_3_spring2000.htm>.

Kasper, Loretta F.  “ESL Writing and the Principle of Nonjudgmental Awareness: Rationale and Implementation.”   Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings.  Ed. Susan N. Bernstein.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. 277-287.

Kenkel, James, and Robert Yates.  “A Developmental Perspective on the Relationship between Grammar and Text.”  Journal of Basic Writing 22.1 (2003): 35-49.

Kirch, Ann.  “A Basic Writer's Topoi for Timed Essay Tests.”  Journal of Basic Writing 15 (Fall 1996): 112-24.

Krahe, Valerie Ann.  “The Shape of the Container.”  Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings.  Ed. Naomi Bernstein.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. 138-42.

Kroll, Barry M., and John C. Schafer.   “Error-Analysis and the Teaching of Composition.”  A  Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.   Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  208-15.

Lalicker, William B.  “A Basic Introduction to Basic Writing Program Structures: A Baseline and Five Alternatives.”   BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 1 (1999).  <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/bwe_fall_1999.htm>.

Laurence, Patricia.  “The Vanishing Site of Mina Shaughnessey's Errors and Expectations.”   Journal of Basic Writing 12.2 (1993): 18-27.

Laurence, Patricia, et. al.   “Symposium on Basic Writing: Conflict and Struggle, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy.”   College English 55 (1993): 879-903.

Lees, Elaine.  “Proofreading as Reading, Errors as Embarrassments.”  A Sourcebook for Basic  Writing Teachers.   Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  216-30.

Leki, Ilona.   “Reciprocal Themes in ESL Reading and Writing.”  Reading in the Composition Classroom: Second Language Perspectives.  1993.  Rpt. in Landmark Essays on ESL Writing.  Eds. Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. 173-190.

Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia, and Jeff Sommers.  “Professing at the Fault Lines: Composition at Open-Admissions Institutions.”  College Composition and Communication 50 (1999): 438-462.

Liese, Daniela.  “Review Essay on Marilyn Sternglass's Time To Know Them.”  Journal of Basic Writing  18 (Spring 1999): 21-26.

Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner.  “Expectations, Interpretations and Contributions of Basic Writing.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2000): 43-52.

Lu, Min-Zhan.  “Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies of Preconditions of Basic Writing?”  College English 54.8 (1992): 887-913.

Lu, Min-Zhan.   “Redefining the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy: A Critique of the Politics of Linguistic Innocence.”  Journal of Basic Writing 10.1 (1991) 26-___

Lunsford, Andrea A.  “Politics and Practices in Basic Writing.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987. 246-58.

Lunsford, Andrea.  “Cognitive Development and the Basic Writer.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987. 449-59.

MacDonald, Susan Peck.  “Problem Definition in Academic Writing.”  College English 49 (March, 1987): 315-31.

Maher, Jane.  “Writing the Life of Mina P. Shaughnessy.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Spring 1997): 51-63.

Maher, Jane.  “A Full and Good World from Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work.”  Journal of Basic Writing 15 (Fall 1996): 3-23.

Marinara, Martha.  “When Working Class Students `Do' the Academy: How We NegotiateWith Alternative Literacies?”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Fall 1997): 3-16.

Maas-Feary, Maureen.   “Attitude is Everything, A Developmental Writing Instructor Finds While Teaching Freshmen English.”  Research & Teaching in  Developmental Education 17 (Fall 2000):  83-85.

Matsuda, Paul Kei, and Tony Silva. Cross-cultural composition: Mediated integration of US and international students. Composition Studies 27(1) (1999), 15-30.

McAlexander, Patricia J.   “Mina Shaughnessy and K. Patricia Cross: The Forgotten Debate over Postsecondary Remediation.”   Rhetoric Review 19 (2000): 28-41.

McAlexander, Patricia.   “Developmental Classroom Personality and Response to Peer Review.”_______________________

McCrary, Donald.   “Speaking in Tongues: Using Womanist Sermons as Intra-Cultural Rhetoric in the Writing Classroom. ____________

McNenny, Gerri.   “Collaborations between basic writing professionals and high school instructors:  The shape of things to come.”   BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal. http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/BWE_spring_2002.html

Miller, David.   “Developmental Writing: Trust, Challenge, and Critical Thinking.”   Journal of Basic Writing 21.2 (2002): 92-105.

Miller, Susan.  “A Failure for the Vanishing Present: New Work for Basic Writing.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2001): 53-68.

Minot, Walter S., and Kenneth R. Gamble.  “Self-Esteem and Writing Apprehension of Basic Writers: Conflicting Evidence.”  Journal of Basic Writing 10.2 (1991): 116-24.

Miraglia, Eric.   “A Self-Diagnostic Assessment in the Basic Writing Course.”   Journal of Basic Writing 14.2 (1995): 48-67.

Mlynarczyk, Rebecca.  “Finding Grandma's Words.”  Journal of Basic Writing 15 (Summer 1996): 3-22.

Mohr, Ellen.   “The writing center:  An opportunity for democracy.”   Teaching developmental writing.  Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein.  Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.  344-53.

Moran, Mary Hurley.  “Connections Between Reading and Successful Revision.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Fall 1997): 76-89.

Mutnick, Deborah.  “The Strategic Value of Basic Writing: An Analysis of the Current Moment.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2000): 69-83.

Mutkick, Deborah.   “On the Academic Margins: Basic Writing Pedagogy.”   A Guide to Composition Pedagogies.  Eds. Gary Tate, Amy Rupeper, and Kurt Schick.  New York: Oxford UP, 2001.  183-202.

Mlynarczyk, Rebecca Williams, and Marcia Babbitt.   “The Power of Academic Learning Communities.”   Journal of Basic Writing  21.1 (2002): 71-89.

Newman, Michael.  “Correctness and its Conceptions: The Meaning of Language Form for Basic Writers.”  Journal of Basic Writing 15.1 (1996): 23-38.

Newton, Stephen.  “Teaching, Listening, and the Sound of Guns.”  BWe:  Basic Writing eJournal 4 (Spring 2002).  <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/BWE_spring_2002.html#Teaching>.

Neuleib, Janet, and Irene Brosnahan.  “Teaching Grammar to Writers.”  Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. 116-121.

Nixon-Ponder, Sarah.   “Using Problem-Posing Dialogue in Adult Literacy Education.”   Teaching Developmental Writing.  Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.  144-50.

Norment, Jr., Nathaniel.  “Some Effects of Culture-Referenced Topics on the Writing Performance of African American Students.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Fall 1997): 17-45.

Odell. Lee.  “Basic Writing in Context: Rethinking Academic Literacy.”  Journal of Basic Writing 14.1 (1995): 43-56.

Ong, Walter J. Literacy and Orality in Our Times.”  A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers.   Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York: Random House, 1987.  45-55.

Otte, George, and Terence Collins.  “Basic Writing and New Technologies.”  BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 1 (1999). <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/bwe_summer1999.htm>.

Otte, George.  “Computer-Adjusted Errors and Expectations.”  Journal of Basic Writing 10.2 (1991): 71-86.

Otte, George.  “High Schools as Crucibles of College Prep: What More Do We Need to Know?”  Journal of Basic Writing 21 (Fall 2002): 106-120.

Pally, Marcia, Helen Katznelson, Hadara Peroignan, and Bella Rubin.    “What Is Learned in Sustained Content Writing Classes Along with Writing?”  Journal of Basic Writing 21 (Spring 2002): 90-115.

Parisi, Hope.   “Involvement and Self-Awareness for the Basic Writer: Graphically Conceptualizing the Writing Process.”  Journal of Basic Writing 13.2 (1994): 33-45.

Perl, Sondra.  “The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers.”  Research in theTeaching of English 13 (1979), 317-36.

Perl, Sondra.  “A Look at Basic Writers in the Process of Composing.”  Basic Writing: Essays for Teachers, Teachers, and Administrators. Ed. Lawrence N. Kasden and Daniel R. Hoeber. Urbana IL: NCTE, 1980. 13-32.

Peter Goggin; Sharon Crowley; John Ramage; Kohl M. Glau  “The Universal Requirment in First-Year Composition": A forum. BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 1 (1999).  <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/bwe_fall_1999.htm>.

Pratt, Mary Louise.  “Arts of the Contact Zone.”  Profession 91 (1993): 33-40.

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Purves, Alan. Teaching People Who Don't Write Good.”  Journal of Basic Writing 14.1 (1995): 15-20.

Raymond, Richard.   “Building Learning Communities on Nonresidential Campuses.”  __________________

Reagan, Sally Barr.  “Warning: Basic Writers at Risk-The Case of Javier.”  Journal of Basic Writing 10.2 (1991): 99-115.

Remler, Nancy Lawson.   “The More Active the Better: Engaging College English Students with Active Learning Strategies.”  ____________

Engaging College English Students with Active Learning Strategies"

Reynolds, Tom, and Patty Fillipi.  “Refocus Through Involvement: (Re)writing the Curricular Documents of the University of Minnesota-General College Basic Writing Program.”  Journal of Basic Writing 22 (2003): 13-21.

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Rodby, Judith, and Tom Fox.  “Basic Work and Material Acts: The Ironies, Discrepancies, and Disjunctures of Basic Writing and Mainstreaming.”  Journal of Basic Writing 19 (Spring 2001): 84-99.

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Rose, Mike.  “Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism.”  College Composition and Communication 39 (Oct. 1988), 267-300

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Ryden, Wendy.  “How Soft is Process? The Feminization of Comp and Pedagogies of Care.”  Journal of Basic Writing 20 (Spring 2001): 53-63.

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Severino, Carol.  “An Urban University and Its Academic Support Program: Teaching Basic Writing in the Context of an 'Urban Mission.'“  Journal of Basic Writing 15 (Summer 1996): 39-56.

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Shafer, Gregory.  “Using Letters for Process and Change in the Basic Writing Classroom.”  Teaching Developmental Writing. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. 46-59.

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Shaugnessy, Mina.  “Some New Approaches to Teaching.”  Journal of Basic Writing 13.1(1994): 103-116.

Sheridan-Rabideau, Mary P. and Gordon Brossell.  “Finding Basic Writing's Place.”  Journal of Basic Writing 14.1 (1995): 21-26.

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Soliday, Mary.  “Towards a Consciousness of Language: A Language Pedagogy for Multicultural Classrooms.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Fall 1997): 62-75.

Spigelman, Candace.  “Taboo Topics in the Rhetoric of Silence: Discussing Lives on the Boundary in a Basic Writing Class.”  Journal of Basic Writing 17 (Spring 1998): 42-55.

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Sternglass, Marilyn.  “Students Deserve Enough Time to Prove They Can Succeed.”  Journal of Basic Writing  18 (Spring 1999): 3-20.

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Villanueva, Victor.  “Theory in the Basic Writing Classroom? A Practice.”  Journal of Basic Writing 16 (Spring 1997): 79-90

Von Bergen, Linda.   “Shaping the Point with Poetry.”  ________________

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Yancey, Kathleen Blake.   “Outcomes Assessment and Basic Writing: What, Why, and How?”  BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal 1 (1999). <http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/composition/cbw/bwe_summer1999.htm>.

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