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The Rhetoric of Remediation.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Composition, Literacy, and Culture SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822977377
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Rhetoric of RemediationDDC classification:
  • 378.1/6109794
LOC classification:
  • LD741
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. "To Embrace Every Child of California" -- Chapter 1. "The Honor of the State" -- Chapter 2. "The Unfortunate, the Lazy, and the Feeble-Minded" -- Chapter 3. "They Can Neither Read Nor Write" -- Chapter 4. "Beautiful but Dumb" -- Chapter 5. "The Hordes . . . Invade the Campus" -- Chapter 6. "The Decencies of English" -- Chapter 7. "The Tides of the Semi-literate" -- Chapter 8. "Viewed as Disgraceful by Many Scholars" -- Chapter 9. "The Technically Qualified" -- Chapter 10. "Bonehead English" -- Chapter 11. "Below Acceptable Levels" -- Conclusion. The Disdainful Embrace -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: American universities have long professed dismay at the writing proficiency of entrants. Jane Stanley examines the "rhetoric of remediation" at the University of California, Berkeley, and reveals the definition of a high need for remediation as a tool by which Cal encouraged or discouraged enrollments in direct correlation to social, economic and political currents throughout the University's history.Winner, 2010 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. "To Embrace Every Child of California" -- Chapter 1. "The Honor of the State" -- Chapter 2. "The Unfortunate, the Lazy, and the Feeble-Minded" -- Chapter 3. "They Can Neither Read Nor Write" -- Chapter 4. "Beautiful but Dumb" -- Chapter 5. "The Hordes . . . Invade the Campus" -- Chapter 6. "The Decencies of English" -- Chapter 7. "The Tides of the Semi-literate" -- Chapter 8. "Viewed as Disgraceful by Many Scholars" -- Chapter 9. "The Technically Qualified" -- Chapter 10. "Bonehead English" -- Chapter 11. "Below Acceptable Levels" -- Conclusion. The Disdainful Embrace -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

American universities have long professed dismay at the writing proficiency of entrants. Jane Stanley examines the "rhetoric of remediation" at the University of California, Berkeley, and reveals the definition of a high need for remediation as a tool by which Cal encouraged or discouraged enrollments in direct correlation to social, economic and political currents throughout the University's history.Winner, 2010 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.

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