Transiciones: Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College - Couverture souple

Ruecker, Todd

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ISBN 10 : 0874219752 ISBN 13 : 9780874219753

Editeur : Utah State University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Transiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gathered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary institutions reveal a rich picture of the conflicted experience of these students as they attempted to balance the demands of schooling with a variety of personal responsibilities.

Todd Ruecker explores the disconnect between students' writing experiences in high school and higher education and examines the integral role that writing plays in college. Considering the almost universal requirement that students take a writing class in their critical first year of college, he contends that it is essential for composition researchers and teachers to gain a fuller understanding of the role they play in supporting and hindering Latina and Latino students' transition to college.

Arguing for situating writing programs in larger discussions of high school/college alignment, student engagement, and retention, Transiciones raises the profile of what writing programs can do while calling composition teachers, administrators, and scholars to engage in more collaboration across the institution, across institutions, and across disciplines to make the transition from high school to college writing more successful for this important group of students.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Todd Ruecker is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of New Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Utah State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874219752
• ISBN 13: 9780874219753
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible