Diving In or Guarding the Tower: Mina Shaughnessy�s Resistance and Capitulation to High-Stakes Writing Tests at City College

Abstract

Scholarship in basic writing tends to focus on students in writing classrooms or writing centers and on the policies or politics connected to these sites.To some extent, basic writing students are considered those in need of basic writing classes, though this definition is contested.One key argument is that learning to write is not contained once and for all in a class, but occurs with all the writing students do in academic, personal, or professional contexts in college and beyond (Rankins-Robertson, Cahill, Roen, and Glau 56).Writers in the academy produce texts in complex social environments, where they have to learn genre and disciplinary expectations, understand the immediate demands of rhetorical situations, and apply

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