CFP: Student Identity in First Year Writing (8/14/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)
The composition classroom is a place where the vast diversity of today=92=
s college students meet in one location. And it is the duty of compositi=
on instructors to assist these ethnically and culturally diverse student=
s in constructing an academic identity. In the twenty years since David =
Bartholomae=92s "Inventing the University" was published, the debate con=
cerning how best to help students construct this academic identity in th=
e contact zones of first year writing is still debated. While much of th=
e conversation has centered on pedagogy, it is also important to see wha=
t diverse student writers are actually doing in their writing as they st=