Investigating the Reasons University Students in the South Central United States Have to Retake First Year English Composition
Edith Sue Kohner Burford
137 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0773463143
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2004
The university Burford studies is in the southern tip of Texas, and is called a Mexican university because it is in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Most of the students are Hispanic, and most of the faculty is of Anglo-Saxon/European heritage. The school has a history of a high rate of students repeating first-year composition, either because they did