Do Two-Year College Students Write as Well as Four-Year College Students? Classroom and Institutional Perspectives.

Gaskins, Jake; Holt, Dennis; Roeger, Elizabeth

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ERIC Number: EJ560829

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Do Two-Year College Students Write as Well as Four-Year College Students? Classroom and Institutional Perspectives.

Gaskins, Jake; Holt, Dennis; Roeger, Elizabeth

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v25 n1 p6-15 Feb 1998

Finds that the writing of the typical student enrolled in the community college composition class is qualitatively different from the writing of their four-year counterparts but that two-year college transfer students achieve the same level of writing competence as their nontransfer peers. Presents reactions of a two-year college instructor regarding implications of these results. (SR)

Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Writing (Composition), Writing Ability, Writing Achievement, Writing Instruction, Writing Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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