African American Literacies
Introduction: don't we still have to prove our humanity? 1. Literacy, language, composition, rhetoric and (not) the African American student: sick and tired of being sick and tired 2. the literacies of African American-centered rhetoric and composition: freestylin' or lookin' for a style that's free 3. "To protect and serve": African American female literacies 4. African American-centered rhetoric, composition, and literacy: theory and research 5. Composition in a fifth key: rhetorics and discourses in an African American-centered writing classroom 6. Dukin' it out with "the powers that be": centering African American-centered studies and students in the traditional curriculum
The Role of Talk in Small Writing Groups: Building Declarative and Procedural Knowledge for Basic Writers
Through the use of a case study, this article explores the role of talk in underpre- pared students' acquisition of academic discourse. Conversation analysis as a linguistic frame- work is used to examine the interactions of students participating in a small writing group. Tracing the progress of one student's paper, I explore how students' participation in small writing groups allows them, in Faerch and Kasper's terms, to build declarative knowledge and negotiate strategies they can apply to their procedural knowledge of writing. The small writing groups, led by a teaching assistant, provide underprepared students with exposure to the practices and values of the academic discourse community. A systematic look at how students' talk is structured and what topics they focus on offers important insights to instructors into aspects of student writers' learning processes and suggests additional pedagogical approaches.
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