Basic writing reading list from
The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing
books
Note: as of 3/18/04, this list is still “in process,” as we’re working on the new edition of The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing.
Balester, Valerie M. Cultural Divide: a Study of African-American College-Level Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1993.
Bartholomae, David, and Anthony R. Petrosky. Facts, Artifacts and Counterfacts. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1986.
Belcher, Diane, and George Braine. (Eds.). (1995). Academic writing in a second language: Essays on research & pedagogy. Norwood, NJ:Ablex, 1995.
Brooks, Charlotte K., ed. Tapping Potential: English and Language Arts for the Black Learner. Urbana: NCTE, 1985.
Clark, Romy and Roz Ivanic. The Politics of Writing. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Connor, Ulla. Contrastive rhetoric: Cross-cultural aspects of second-language writing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Dickson, Marcia. It's Not Like That Here: Teaching Academic Reading and Writing to Novice Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995.
DiPardo, Anne. A Kind of Passport: a Basic Writing Adjunct Program and the Challenge of Diversity. Urbana: NCTE,1993.
Dunn, Patricia. Learning Re-abled. Portsmouth, NH: Boyton/Cook, 1995.
Eleanor, Suzy Groden, and Vivian Zamel. The
Discovery of Competence: Teaching and Learning with Diverse
Student Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Boyton/Cook, 1993.
Ferris, Dana, and John Hedgcock. Teaching ESL composition. Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
Fox, Tom. Defending Access: A Critique of Standards in Higher Education. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999.
Gardner, Susan and Toby Fulwiler. The Journal Book for Teachers of At-Risk Students. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, _______
Gray-Rosendale, Laura. Rethinking Basic Writing. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2000.
Harklau, Linda, Kay M. Losey, and Meryl Siegal, Eds.. Generation 1.5 meets college composition: Issues in the teaching of writing to U.S.-educated learners of ESL. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999.
Haswell, Rich. Gaining Ground in College Writing. Dallas: SMU Press, 1991.
Henry, Jeanne. If Not Now: Developmental Readers in the College Classroom. Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 1995.
Hill, Carolyn Ericksen. Writing from the Margins : Power and Pedagogy for Teachers of Composition. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.
Hillocks, George. Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice. Columbia University: Teacher's College Press, 1995.
Horner, Bruce, and Min-Zhan Lu. Representing the “Other”: Basic Writers and the Teaching of Writing. Urbana IL: NCTE, 1999.
Horning, Alice. Teaching Writing as a Second Language. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series, SIU Press, 1987.
Hourigan, Maureen M. Literacy as Social Exchange: Intersections of Class, Gender, and Race. New York: SUNY, 1994.
Kasden, Lawrence, and Daniel Hoeber, eds. Basic Writing: Essays For Teachers, Researchers, Administrators. Urbana, IL: NCTE,1980.
Kells, Michele Hall and Valerie Balester. Attending to the Margins. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999.
Kutz, Eleanor, Suzy Q. Groden, and Vivian Zamel. The Discovery of Competence: Teaching and Learning with Diverse Student Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1993.
Leki, Ilona. (1992). Understanding ESL writers: A guide for teachers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook
Mutnick, Deborah. Writing in an Alien World. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1996.
Michael Moran and Martin Jacobi. Research in Basic Writing: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. NY: Greenwood, 1991.
Nelson, Marie Wilson, Marie Ponsot Nelson, and Nancy Martin. At the Point of Need: Teaching Basic and ESL Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991.
Noguchi, Rei. Grammar and the Teaching of Writing. Urbana IL: National Council of Teachers of English, _____.
Richardson, Elaine. African American Literacies. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Rodby, Judith. Appropriating literacy. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992.
Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared. New York: The Free Press, 1989.
Rose, Mike. Possible Lives. New York: Penguin, 1995.
Severino, Carol, J. C. Guerra, and J. E. Butler, Eds. Writing in multicultural settings. New York: MLA, 1997.
Shaughnessy, Mina P. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. New York: Oxford UP, 1977.
Shepard, Alan, John McMillan,and Gary Tate, eds. Coming to Class: Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998.
Silva, Tony, and Paul Kei Matsuda, Paul Kei, Eds.. On second language writing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000.
Silva, Tony and Paul Kei Matsuda, ed. Landmark Essays on ESL Writing. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc, 2001.
Smith, Frank. Writing and the Writer. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.
Smith, Frank. The Book of Learning and Forgetting. Teachers College Press, 1998.
Smith, Frank. Understanding Reading : A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.
Soliday, Mary. The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2002.
Sternglass, Marilyn. Time to Know Them. Earlbaum, 1998.
Strickland, Kathleen. Literacy, Not Labels. Boynton Cook, 1995.
Uehling, Karen. Starting Out or Starting Over: A Guide for Writing. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Uehling, Karen S. "The Conference on Basic Writing: 1980-2001." Histories of Developmental Education and Urban Literacy. Minneapolis: The Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, General College, University of Minnesota, 2002.
Weaver, Constance. Grammar in Context. Portsmouth, NH: Boyton/Cook, 1996.
White, Edward. Teaching and Assessing Writing. San Francisco: Jossey, 1994.
Zamel, Vivian, and Ruth Spack. Negotiating Academic Literacies Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. 1998.
Zamel, Vivian, and Ruth Spack (Eds). Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2002. Pp. xxiv + 448. $37.50 paper.
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