Inside/Out(sourced) (Paperback)

Basic writing instruction and the community college have a long association with each other; however, in recent years, the growing trend of outsourcing of basic writing instruction to community colleges by four-year universities has brought into sharper focus the dangers in such a plan. Is this outsourcing trend a further marginalization of both basic writers and basic writing faculty? Who stands to gain, and who stands to lose, if basic writing instruction and all developmental education are left only to community colleges? This book looks at the history of basic writing instruction at community colleges across America, what the current problems are - both for students and for faculty - and how those committed to the enterprise of basic writing instruction can best address and work to solve those problems.