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Write Your Ticket to College: A Genre‐Based College Admission Essay Workshop for Ethnically Diverse, Underserved Students
Author(s) -
Early Jessica Singer,
DeCostaSmith Meredith,
Valdespino Arturo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1598/jaal.54.3.6
Subject(s) - gatekeeping , ethnically diverse , ethnic group , quality (philosophy) , curriculum , pedagogy , psychology , mathematics education , sociology , political science , philosophy , epistemology , anthropology , law
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.