Beyond Fitting In
Rethinking First-Generation Writing and Literacy Education
- Editor: Kelly Ritter
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2023
- ISBN: 9781603296038 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603296021 (Hardcover)
Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation college students inform literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom. Essays, written by scholar-teachers in the field of rhetoric and composition, discuss best practices for teaching first-generation students in writing classrooms, centers, programs, and other environments. The collection considers how first-gen students of different demographics interact with and affect literacy instruction in a variety of public and private, rural and urban schools offering two- or four-year programs, including Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, and public research universities. By exploring the experiences of students, teachers, writing program administrators, and writing center directors, the volume gives readers an inside view of the practices and structures that shape the literacy of first-generation students.
Acknowledgments (vii)
Foreword (ix)
Introduction: On the Precipice (1)
Part One: Defining First-Generation Students
A Keyword Analysis of Websites That Support First-Generation Students (27)
Integrated Regionalisms and First-Generation Students: A Place-Conscious Heuristic (45)
First-Generation Students in an Accelerated Learning Program at a Community College (60)
Rural First-Generation Latinx Students and College Access: Considerations for Writing Instructors and Administrators (80)
Finding First-Generation Students through an Intersectional Approach to Institutional and Programmatic Data (99)
Part Two: First-Generation Students in the First Year and Beyond
Dual Enrollment First-Year Writing for First-Generation Students (117)
Writing Transitions of First-Generation Writers in a Paired Retention Program and First-Year Writing Course (135)
On a Path to Fitting In? Listening to First-Generation Students at a Branch Campus (152)
Bridging Literacies: First-Generation Transfer Students in a Writing Studies Major (171)
First-Generation Students at a Historically Black University Talk about “Proper English” (189)
Part Three: Writing Contexts for First-Generation Students, Teachers, and Administrators
Writing Transfer Strategies of First-Generation College Students: Negotiation as a Metaphor for Adaptive Transfer (211)
First-Generation College Students’ Constructs of Writing in First-Year Writing and Workplace Contexts (233)
Research-Writing Pedagogy as Sustaining First-Generation College Student Identities in a Bridge Program (251)
Playing the Expectation Game: Negotiating Disciplinary Discourse in Undergraduate Research (267)
From Literacy Narrative to Identity-Conflict Memoir: Agency in Representation (282)
First-Generation Writing Program Administrators as Literacy Sponsors for First-Generation College Students (300)
Afterword: The New Student Majority Deserves Fundamental Reform in Higher Education (317)
Notes on Contributors (333)