Ebook: Community colleges and first-generation students : academic discourse in the writing classroom
Author: Osborn Jan
- Tags: Community colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects, First-generation college students -- United States, Minority college students -- United States, Community college students -- United States, Education Higher -- Social aspects -- United States, Critical discourse analysis, Community college students, Community colleges -- Sociological aspects, Education Higher -- Social aspects, First-generation college students, Minority college students, United States
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- City: New York, NY, United States.
- Language: English
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"Community Colleges and First-Generation Students examines how first-generation students from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are initiated into what is known as academic discourse, particularly at the community college. Osborn systematically looks at specific classroom discourses through detailed evidence provided by the diversities represented by the students, and how the students negotiated their Read more...