Turnbull, Merrielle. “Becoming One with the University: Basic Writers and Academic Voice.” Diss. Ball State U.
p. 30:
“For basic writers, “academic writing is a trap, not a way of saying something to someone” (quoting Shaughnessy, Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing, p. 9).
So, I should check out Shaughnessy’s book (which VTB suggested to everyone in class).
Not only would you find Shaughnessy interesting, but also Patricia Bizzell’s “When Basic Writers Come to College.” My thesis on Mike Rose touched on Bizzell and Bartholomae and Herzberg. What’s the date of Turnbull’s diss? You could get it on ILL.
But consider Gerald Graff’s claim in “Cluless in Academe” which I am reading – his claim that college students don’t understand the concept of scholarly conversation / argument. Actually, I haven’t finished Graff, so please don’t recall it from the library yet! While I read that I will also read the manuscript of Graff’s new textbook for WR 121. Lisa Ede had it sent to me because she is connected with the book, a foreword perhaps and/or a blurb on the back.
And have you looked at Bartholomae and Petrovsky’s “Ways of Reading” textbook? and you must know Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University”, from Mike Rose’s early anthology “When a Writer Can’t Write” —
More later!