Community Colleges and First-Generation Students - by Jan Osborn (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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 identities in terms of the ideological directionality in play. "--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The book is addressed to scholars in the fields of academic discourse and academic writing, writing instructors, community college administrators, and those who are interested in academic discourse, community college education, education policy as well as education for social change. ... A very complete, well-exemplified and detailed data analysis and a clear and accessible writing style make the book a successful example of a critical view of the academic writing classroom and an enticing invitation to reflection." (Pamela Olmos-López, Discourse & Society, Vol. 28 (6), 2017)</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jan Osborn is Assistant Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program in the Department of English at Chapman University, USA.
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