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Community colleges and first-generation students : academic discourse in the writing classroom

By Jan , Osborn

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
9781137555670, 113755567X, 9781137555694, 1137555696
DOI
10.1057/9781137555694
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1602579 bytes)
Pages
211\200
Time added
2017-05-30 19:04:26
Community colleges -- United States -- SociologicaHigher -- Social aspects -- United States;CriticalHigher -- Social aspects;First-generation college

Description

"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 negotiated their identities in terms of the ideological directionality in play."  Read more...

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