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Retention, persistence, and writing programs /edited by Todd Ruecker, Dawn Shepherd, Heidi Estrem, Beth-Brunk Chavez.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Logan : Utah State University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781607326021
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PE1404 .R484 2017
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Contents:
Introduction : retention, persistence, and writing : expanding the conversation / Todd Ruecker, Dawn Shepherd, Heidi Estrem, and Beth-Brunk Chavez -- Retention Panopticon : what WPAS should bring to the table in discussions of student success / Rita Malenczyk -- Building collaborative partnerships to support institutional-level retention initiatives in writing programs / Ashley J. Holmes and Cristine Busser -- Big data and writing program retention assessment : what we need to know / Marc Scott -- The imperative of pedagogical and professional development to support the retention of underprepared students at open-access institutions / Joanne Giordano, Holly Hassel, Jennifer Heinert, and Cassandra Phillips -- How student performance in first-year composition predicts retention and overall student success / Nathan Garrett, Matthew Bridgewater, and Bruce Feinstein -- "Life gets in the way" : the case of a seventh-year senior / Sara Webb-Sunderhaus -- Absolute hospitality in the writing program / Pegeen Reichert Powell -- Retention, critical pedagogy, and students as agents : eschewing the deficit model / Beth Buyserie, Anna Plemons, and Patricia Freitag Ericsson -- Reconfiguring the writing studio model : examining the impact of the PlusOne Program on student performance and retention / Polina Chemishanova and Robin Snead -- Retention rates of second language writers and basic writers : a comparison within the Stretch Program model / Sarah Elizabeth Snyder -- The kairotic classroom : retention discourse and supplemental instruction in the first year / Sarah E. Harris -- Enhancing alliances and joining initiatives to help students : the story of how we created developmental learning communities at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi / Susan Wolff Murphy and Mark Hartlaub -- Undergraduate mentors as agents of engagement : peer advocates in first-year writing courses / Michael Day, Tawanda Gipson, and Chris Parker -- Afterword / Linda Adler-Kassner.
Subject: "Perspectives on how first-year writing can support or hinder students' transitions to college from scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and a range of student populations. Contributors present individual and program case studies, surveys of thousands of students, retention data, and policy analysis"--Provided by publisher.
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"Perspectives on how first-year writing can support or hinder students' transitions to college from scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and a range of student populations. Contributors present individual and program case studies, surveys of thousands of students, retention data, and policy analysis"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : retention, persistence, and writing : expanding the conversation / Todd Ruecker, Dawn Shepherd, Heidi Estrem, and Beth-Brunk Chavez -- Retention Panopticon : what WPAS should bring to the table in discussions of student success / Rita Malenczyk -- Building collaborative partnerships to support institutional-level retention initiatives in writing programs / Ashley J. Holmes and Cristine Busser -- Big data and writing program retention assessment : what we need to know / Marc Scott -- The imperative of pedagogical and professional development to support the retention of underprepared students at open-access institutions / Joanne Giordano, Holly Hassel, Jennifer Heinert, and Cassandra Phillips -- How student performance in first-year composition predicts retention and overall student success / Nathan Garrett, Matthew Bridgewater, and Bruce Feinstein -- "Life gets in the way" : the case of a seventh-year senior / Sara Webb-Sunderhaus -- Absolute hospitality in the writing program / Pegeen Reichert Powell -- Retention, critical pedagogy, and students as agents : eschewing the deficit model / Beth Buyserie, Anna Plemons, and Patricia Freitag Ericsson -- Reconfiguring the writing studio model : examining the impact of the PlusOne Program on student performance and retention / Polina Chemishanova and Robin Snead -- Retention rates of second language writers and basic writers : a comparison within the Stretch Program model / Sarah Elizabeth Snyder -- The kairotic classroom : retention discourse and supplemental instruction in the first year / Sarah E. Harris -- Enhancing alliances and joining initiatives to help students : the story of how we created developmental learning communities at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi / Susan Wolff Murphy and Mark Hartlaub -- Undergraduate mentors as agents of engagement : peer advocates in first-year writing courses / Michael Day, Tawanda Gipson, and Chris Parker -- Afterword / Linda Adler-Kassner.

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