Mainstreaming Basic Writers Pr Book

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Writing Instruction and the Post-Remedial University: Setting the Scene for the Mainstreaming Debate in Basic Writing	1
I	The Controversy Surrounding Mainstreaming: Theory, Politics, and Practice
2	Revisiting the Importance of Placement and Basic Studies: Evidence of Success	19
3	Errors and Economics: Inequality Breeds Remediation	29
4	Ideologies of Access and the Politics of Agency	55
5	Mainstreaming? Eddy, Rivulet, Backwater, Site Specificity	73
6	Those Crazy Gates and How They Swing: Tracking the System That Tracks African-American Students	85
7	Moving the Margins	101
II	Alternative Configurations for Basic Writing
8	Returning Adults to the Mainstream: Toward a Curriculum for Diverse Student Writers	121
9	Rethinking At-Risk Students' Knowledge and Needs: Heroes' Decisions and Students' Quests for Identity and Meaning in a Content Composition Course	145
10	Mainstreaming and Other Experiments in a Learning Community	173
11	Mainstreaming Writing: What Does This Mean for ESL Students?	193
12	The Context Determines Our Choice: Curriculum, Students, and Faculty	215
	About the Authors	225
	Author Index	229
	Subject Index	235