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Basic writing, or developmental writing, is a subdiscipline of composition studies which focuses on the writing of students sometimes otherwise called "remedial" or "underprepared", usually freshman college students. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Basic writingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The impact of 360° videos on basic Chinese writing: a preliminary explorationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Robinson CrusoeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO WRITING: COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR BASIC WRITING SKILLSCited 38 times
- Go sideways: Mina P. ShaughnessyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Judith SummerfieldA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO WRITING: COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR BASIC WRITING SKILLS
Integrating Reading and Writing: A Response to the Basic Writing "Crisis"
Basic Writing as Cultural Conflict
Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills
What Basic Writers Think About Writing
Discoursing Basic Writing
Relocating Basic Writing
Basic Writing Reconsidered
🆕 Influential since 2022
The impact of 360° videos on basic Chinese writing: a preliminary exploration
Standards, Instruction and Assessment of EFL Writing in Schools: Lessons From China's Basic Education
Beyond Individual Tests: Youths’ Cognitive Abilities, Basic Reading, and Writing
Training Basic Skills of Scientific Writing and Publication to Improve Research Competence
Where the flame endures: passion, mentorship, and writing rooted in basic ecological research
đź“š Books worth reading
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 1686
Rethinking basic writingLaura Gray-Rosendale · 1999- 📕Dialogue on WritingGeraldine DeLuca · 2001
Mainstreaming basic writersSallyanne H. Fitzgerald · 2001- 📕From Pictures to LettersEllen Walpole · 2017
Thinking Through the TestElizabeth Bellas, Peri Poland · 2010
Building basic skills in writingCONTEMPORARY · 1981- 📕Patterns and ThemesGlenn C. Rogers · 1985
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