TY - JOUR
T1 - Write your ticket to college
T2 - A genre-based college admission essay workshop for ethnically diverse, underserved students
AU - Early, Jessica
AU - Decosta-Smith, Meredith
AU - Valdespino, Arturo
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - This article describes a writing workshop that took place with 41 low-income, multi-ethnic 12th-grade students who received instruction on specific genre features for writing college admission essays. As a result, students improved the quality of their college admission essays and demonstrated greater confidence with this writing task. This workshop suggests the need to expand the language arts writing curriculum to include more real-world and authentic writing tasks and to demystify gatekeeping genres, such as the college admission essay, so ethnically diverse, underserved students can develop necessary writing skills to gain admission to colleges and universities.
AB - This article describes a writing workshop that took place with 41 low-income, multi-ethnic 12th-grade students who received instruction on specific genre features for writing college admission essays. As a result, students improved the quality of their college admission essays and demonstrated greater confidence with this writing task. This workshop suggests the need to expand the language arts writing curriculum to include more real-world and authentic writing tasks and to demystify gatekeeping genres, such as the college admission essay, so ethnically diverse, underserved students can develop necessary writing skills to gain admission to colleges and universities.
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U2 - 10.1598/JAAL.54.3.6
DO - 10.1598/JAAL.54.3.6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78649308545
SN - 1081-3004
VL - 54
SP - 209
EP - 219
JO - Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
JF - Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
IS - 3
ER -