Introduction : on the precipice / Kelly Ritter -- A keyword analysis of websites that support first-generation students / William DeGenaro and Michael T. MacDonald -- Integrated regionalisms and first-generation students : a place-conscious heuristic / Henny Rice -- First-generation students in an accelerated learning program at a community college / Sarah Elizabeth Snyder and Eric S. Lee -- Rural first-generation Latinx students and college access : considerations for writing instructors and administrators / Todd Ruecker -- Finding first-generation students through an intersectional approach to institutional and programmatic data / Beth A. Towle -- Dual enrollement first-year writing for first-generation students / Casie Moreland -- Writing transitions of first-generation writers in a paired retention program and first-year writing course / Christina Saidy -- On a path to fitting in? : listening to first-generation students at a branch campus / Caitlin Larracey -- Bridging literacies : first-generation transfer students in a writing studies major / Christie Toth, Cristina Guerrero Perez, Kathryn Henderson, Jose Loeri, Joseph Andrew Moss, Jacque Thetsombandith, Adilene Tolentino, and Clint Gardner -- First-generation students at a historically Black university talk about "proper English" / Shurli Makmillen -- Writing transfer strategies of first-generation college students : negotiation as a metaphor for adaptive transfer / Neil Baird and Bradley Dilger -- First-generation college students' constructs of writing in first-year writing and workplace contexts / Aubrey Schiavone -- Research writing pedagogy as sustaining first-generation college student identities in a bridge program / Christine Alfano, Megan Formato, Jennifer Johnson, and Ashley Newby -- Playing the expectation game : negotiating disciplinary discourse in undergraduate research / Heather M. Falconer -- From literacy narrative to identity conflict memoir : agency in representation / Nancy Mack -- First-generation writing program administrators as literacy sponsors for first-generation college students / Courtney Adams Wooten and Jacob Babb -- Afterword : the new student majority deserves fundamental reform in higher education / Elaine P. Maimon.
Summary:
"Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation students frame literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom. The volume's topics include best practices, support websites, regionalism, rural Latinx students, retention, HBCUs, transfer students, first-year writing, class, transfer students, writing studies majors, race, and identity"-- Provided by publisher.
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