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Pedagogical Interventions in the First-Year Writing Classroom for First-Generation College Students

Pedagogical Interventions in the First-Year Writing Classroom for First-Generation College Students

Jessica Rae Jorgenson Borchert
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781522549604|ISBN10: 1522549609|EISBN13: 9781522549611
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4960-4.ch008
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Borchert, Jessica Rae Jorgenson. "Pedagogical Interventions in the First-Year Writing Classroom for First-Generation College Students." Equity, Equality, and Reform in Contemporary Public Education, edited by Marquis C. Grant, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 153-173. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4960-4.ch008

APA

Borchert, J. R. (2018). Pedagogical Interventions in the First-Year Writing Classroom for First-Generation College Students. In M. Grant (Ed.), Equity, Equality, and Reform in Contemporary Public Education (pp. 153-173). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4960-4.ch008

Chicago

Borchert, Jessica Rae Jorgenson. "Pedagogical Interventions in the First-Year Writing Classroom for First-Generation College Students." In Equity, Equality, and Reform in Contemporary Public Education, edited by Marquis C. Grant, 153-173. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4960-4.ch008

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Abstract

This chapter discusses ways of engaging first-generation college students in the first-year writing classroom. Many interventions exist for helping first-generation college students adjust to and thrive in academic life, such as TRIO programs. This chapter focuses on how instructors in writing classrooms can create pedagogical interventions to encourage and engage these students in academic discourse. To better understand how the pedagogical interventions were received, the author studied contemporary research on multiple ways of engaging first-generation college students in the first-year writing classroom. Along with this research, the author also collected data from students that identified what activities and assignments most engaged them and what they learned from those assignments. From this data and outside research, the author determined three main pedagogical interventions to help first-generation college students succeed, such as peer review groups, creating empathetic spaces, and assigning empathetic writing genres.

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