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Flores, Nelson – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2010
In "A New World: Redefining the Legacy of Min-Zhan Lu"(JBW 27.2, Fall 2008), Brian Ray revisits the controversy that emerged in the early 1990s in response to critiques of the iconic Mina Shaughnessy made by Min-Zhan Lu. He offers a reading of the debate that focuses on common ground between the two sides through a metaphor of linguistic charity…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Figurative Language, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Lu, Min-zhan – College English, 1987
Relates the author's reflections on her early experiences as a student in China and her recent experiences as a composition teacher in the United States. Reveals how the frustration and confusion the author experienced growing up caught between two conflicting worlds ultimately helped her to grow as a reader and writer. (JD)
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Higher Education, Personal Narratives, Reading Writing Relationship
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Brandt, Deborah; Cushman, Ellen; Gere, Anne Ruggles; Herrington, Anne; Miller, Richard E.; Villanueva, Victor; Lu, Min-Zhan; Kirsch, Gesa – College English, 2001
Presents a discussion of symposium participants' excitement as well as frustrations over the ways in which current work in composition and literacy studies has explored the politics of the personal. Offers an example of how personal writing can promote the material as well as the subversive authority of professional discourse. (SG)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English Instruction, Higher Education, Personal Narratives