Community Colleges and First-Generation Students: Academic Discourse in the Writing Classroom

By Jan Osborn

Book Overview

Community Colleges and First-Generation Students examines a community college writing classroom through ten students from diverse linguistic, ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgrounds. Students are introduced to a version of academic discourse that challenges their identities and visions of the future.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113755567X
• ISBN13: 9781137555670
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"