Beyond fitting in : rethinking first-generation writing and literacy education /

Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation students frame literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom. The volume's topics include best practices, support websites, regionalism, rural Latinx students, retention, HBCUs, transfer stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ritter, Kelly (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, [2023].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : on the precipice / Kelly Ritter
  • A keyword analysis of websites that support first-generation students / William DeGenaro and Michael T. MacDonald
  • Integrated regionalisms and first-generation students : a place-conscious heuristic / Henny Rice
  • First-generation students in an accelerated learning program at a community college / Sarah Elizabeth Snyder and Eric S. Lee
  • Rural first-generation Latinx students and college access : considerations for writing instructors and administrators / Todd Ruecker
  • Finding first-generation students through an intersectional approach to institutional and programmatic data / Beth A. Towle
  • Dual enrollement first-year writing for first-generation students / Casie Moreland
  • Writing transitions of first-generation writers in a paired retention program and first-year writing course / Christina Saidy
  • On a path to fitting in? : listening to first-generation students at a branch campus / Caitlin Larracey
  • Bridging literacies : first-generation transfer students in a writing studies major / Christie Toth, Cristina Guerrero Perez, Kathryn Henderson, Jose Loeri, Joseph Andrew Moss, Jacque Thetsombandith, Adilene Tolentino, and Clint Gardner
  • First-generation students at a historically Black university talk about "proper English" / Shurli Makmillen
  • Writing transfer strategies of first-generation college students : negotiation as a metaphor for adaptive transfer / Neil Baird and Bradley Dilger
  • First-generation college students' constructs of writing in first-year writing and workplace contexts / Aubrey Schiavone
  • Research writing pedagogy as sustaining first-generation college student identities in a bridge program / Christine Alfano, Megan Formato, Jennifer Johnson, and Ashley Newby
  • Playing the expectation game : negotiating disciplinary discourse in undergraduate research / Heather M. Falconer
  • From literacy narrative to identity conflict memoir : agency in representation / Nancy Mack
  • First-generation writing program administrators as literacy sponsors for first-generation college students / Courtney Adams Wooten and Jacob Babb
  • Afterword : the new student majority deserves fundamental reform in higher education / Elaine P. Maimon.