UNRAVELING AT BOTH ENDS: ANTI-UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION, ANTI-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, AND BASIC WRITING AT...

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Beteiligte: Stygall, Gail
In: Journal of Basic Writing, 18, 1999, 2, S. 4-22
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City University of New York
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Umfang: 4-22
ISSN: 0147-1635
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Basic Writing
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstoras14
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<p>This article describes the double bind of basic writing programs at public research institutions on the West Coast, offering the situation at the University of Washington as a case study. With a conflict between the university's perceived mission as research and graduate education and its commitment to diversity, the university's Educational Opportunity Program writing sequence is itself at risk in the face of the anti-affirmative action movement, Initiative 200. Using Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze the university's public documents on mission and diversity, a Seattle newspaper's description of the EOP program and the consequences of the passage of 1-200, and the documents of a gubernatorial commission of the future of higher education in Washington state, the author advocates using this analysis in the public debate about diversity and basic writing programs.</p>