Basic Writing in the 21st Century
Published on 30. March 2025
Book
Hardback
550 pages
978-1-4331-9956-1 (ISBN)
Description
Basic Writing in the 21st Century offers a cutting-edge survey of basic writing practices, issues, and scholarship as well as a much-needed resource for all writing instructors and scholars. The book's thirty-three original essays-written by emerging scholars, mid-career professionals, and established and award-winning scholars-offer rich, varied discussions of concerns that typically receive far too little attention in basic writing as well as writing studies altogether. Topics include ableism and accessibility, queer perspectives on teaching and learning, translingualism, teaching multilingual writers, and the impact of institutional landscapes on teaching and learning. Bookended by intriguing overviews of legacy scholars' contributions and compelling, experience-based teaching/learning narratives, this truly significant book represents contemporary practices and current perspectives while also being certain to stand the test of time.
Timely and thought-provoking. This collection reframes the formative era of basic writing scholarship within a context of critique, revision, and expansion. It shows why basic writing inquiry-and the committed scholars it attracts-will always be the lifeblood of our field. And it serves as a guidebook for a new generation of teachers and scholars who want to understand how to make a difference. - Deborah Brandt, Professor Emerita of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The breadth of Basic Writing in the 21st Century is breathtaking. The authors span the history and currency of basic writing, oldtimers to relative newcomers, their scholarship, research, pedagogy, and personal stories: history, theory, philosophy, politics (from the politics we carry in ourselves, from the world to the small, rural college, university to community college), the pedagogies that have stood the tests of time to pedagogies that tell of these times, tools for the classroom (physical and digital). Fifty years of basic writing in one collection, fifty years of continuous struggle to keep the foot in the institutional door. This is a critically important collection. - Victor Villanueva, Regents Professor & Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts, Washington State University
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
966 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-9956-1 (9781433199561)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Laura Gray-Rosendale | Barbara Gleason
Basic Writing in the 21st Century
E-Book
01/2026
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€137.99
Available for download
Laura Gray-Rosendale | Barbara Gleason
Basic Writing in the 21st Century
E-Book
01/2026
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€137.99
Available for download
Persons
Dr. Laura Gray-Rosendale is Professor of English, President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow, and former Director of Writing for STAR (Successful Transition and Academic Readiness)-a program that supports "at-risk" students, at Northern Arizona University.
Dr. Barbara Gleason is Professor of English, Director of the MA in Language & Literacy and former Director of Composition in The City College of New York English Department.
Content
List of Figures - Acknowledgments - Laura Gray-Rosendale and Barbara Gleason: Introduction - Part I. Important Legacies and Critical Perspectives - Chitralekha Duttagupta: 1. Legacies: Remembering the Contributions of Victor Villanueva, Marilyn Sternglass, and Min-Zhan Lu - William B. Lalicker: 2. Mike Rose and the Humanizing of the Basic Writer - Hope Parisi: 3. Revisiting the Stories We Tell: Postscripting Basic Writing - Thomas Reynolds: 4. Basic Writing and the Conditions of Multimodality: The Legacy of Elaine Richardson and Keith Gilyard - Karen S. Uehling: 5. The Council on Basic Writing: A Legacy of Sustained and Sustaining Conversation - Part II. Emerging Issues and Contemporary Perspectives - Translingual and Transcultural Approaches to Teaching and Learning - Rachel Rodriguez: 6. Basic Writing - Missy Watson and Rachael Shapiro: 7. Translingual Approaches in Basic Writing: Resisting the Legacy of Assimilationism - Multiliteracies and Multilingualism - Michelle Hall Kells: 8. Language, Literacy, and Landscape: Cultivating Mi Cultura Cura Community Poetry as COVID-19 Testimonios - Emily K. SuhEmily K. Suh: 9. Raciolinguistic Justice and Multilingual Students: Supporting Multilingualism and Multiliteracy in Basic Writing Contexts - Remote Teaching and Digital Learning - Haley Stammen: 10. "The Best of Both Worlds": Ongoing Considerations for Hybrid Basic Writing Instruction - Thomas Henry: 11. Post-Pandemonium: A Meditation on Livestreaming, Remote Learning, and Basic Writing Instruction - Alternative Basic Writing Course Structures - Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner and Jennifer Maloy: 12. ESL Placement and Pedagogies: Supporting Multilingual Students in the CUNY Corequisite Classroom - Howard Tinberg: 13. The Second Decade: Reviewing the Origins, Implementation, and Impact of the Accelerated Learning Program at Community Colleges - Curricula and Instruction - Cheryl Hogue Smith:14. The Space We Cannot See: From Curious Progenitors to Interrogating Texts - Rasheda Young: 15. Humanizing Basic Writing through Autoethnography: A Caring Approach - Part III. Learners and Intersectionality - Learning, Ability, and Access - Megan Dausch: 16. Writing Instruction and Accessibility: My Literacy Journey - Patricia A. Dunn: 17. Disability and Writing Pedagogy: Stagnation, Progress, and Change - Adult Learners and Social Class - Sonia Feder-Lewis and Christine Photinos: 18. Basic Writing and Adult Learners: Meeting Them at Their Crossroads - Miguel Casimiro and Marcia Buell: 19. Graduate Student/Basic Writer: Academic Acculturation and the Intersections of Ethnicity, Class, and Learning Disabilities - William DeGenaro: 20. Basic Writing as a Working-Class Domain - Queer Pedagogical Perspectives - Mark McBeth: 21. Queer Remediations: How Not to Be Basic - Zarah C. Moeggenberg: 22. A Queer Use of Basic Writing - Tara Pauliny: 23. Considering Writing Vulnerabilities: A (Queerly) Contemplative Approach to Teaching (Basic) Writing - Part IV. Institutional Landscapes: Issues and Realities of Structure, Politics, and Economics - Structural - Leigh Jonaitis: 24. Basic Writing - James Dunn: 25. Teaching and Learning in Three Institutional Contexts - Political and Economic - Darin L. Jensen: 26. Basic Writing Is Dead: Long Live Basic Writing - Patrick Sullivan: 27. Material Conditions and Structural Inequalities: The Political and Economic Exigency for a Second Generation of Basic Writing Programs - Part V. Basic Writing Narratives in Real Time: Students and Teachers/Administrators Share Their Stories - Cori Brewster: 28. Dollars and Skirts: On Living the Politics of Basic Writing - Keith Gilyard: 29. A Reckoning for Basic Writing - Bruce Horner: 30. Who Do We Ask to Teach Basic Writing? - Rebecca Mlynarczyk: 31. Diving Back In: Reflections on Teaching and Testing in the CUNY System - Deborah Mutnick: 32. The Will to Write: Reflections of a "Basic Writing" Scholar and Teacher - Maria Vint: 33. One Basic Writer's Narrative: A Journey through Trauma to the Other Side - List of Contributors - Index