The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education

by Mary Soliday

Book Overview

While some students need more writing instruction than others, The Politics of Remediation reveals how that need also pertains to the institutions themselves. Mary Soliday argues that universities may need remedial English to alleviate their own crises in admissions standards, enrollment, mission, and curriculum, and English departments may use remedial programs to mediate their crises in enrollment, electives, and relationships to the liberal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822941864
• ISBN13: 9780822941866
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"