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Worth Anderson, Cynthia Best, Alycia Black, John Hurst, Brandt Miller, and Susan Miller. Cross-Curricular Underlife: A Collaborative Report on Ways with Academic Words.

Worth, Anderson, et al. "Cross-Curricular Underlife: A Collaborative Report on Ways with Academic Words." CCC 41.1 (1990): 11-36.

Abstract:

The six authors (five students and one professor) conducted a study of the reading and writing practices in the University of Utah's required writing course and in other lower-division courses at the institution. Each of the five student-authors reflected individually on how learning was (or wasn't) happening in their second-quarter courses: the literacy practices used, their motivation for taking certain classes, and the effect of the teacher's and other students' attitudes on the class. They found that what defines "academic literacy" varies by the discourse community that the student is in. The student-authors conclude that a narrowly defined first-year course that does not consider the varying ways students will be writing does not adequately prepare students to use language efficiently in other courses. Susan Miller agrees and points out that first-year composition's view of academic literacy is "simultaneously too uniformed and idealistic about, and too alienated from, the multicultural, multileveled settings in which that literacy has purchase," and that students must learn in first-year writing how to analyze and understand the ethoi that informs each rhetorical situation they encounter.
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