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In Politics Of Remediation: Institutional And Student Needs In Higher Education (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture) (01 September 2002), pp. 65-104.

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While some students need more writing instruction than others, _The Politics of Remediation_ reveals how that need also pertains to the institutionsthemselves. Mary Soliday argues that universities may need remedial English toalleviate their own crises in admissions standards, enrollment, mission, andcurriculum, and English departments may use remedial programs to mediate theircrises in enrollment, electives, and relationships to the liberal arts andprofessional schools.Following a brief history of remedial English and the political uses ofremediation at CCNY before, during, and after the open admissions policy,Soliday questions the ways in which students’ need for remedial writinginstruction has become widely associated with the need to acculturateminorities to the university. In disentangling identity politics fromremediation, she challenges a powerful assumption of post-structuralist work:that a politics of language use is equivalent to the politics of access toinstitutions.


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