Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Questioning the Impact of the First-Year Writing Requirement 1
6. 1. “They Write a Lot More Than I Am Writing at My School”: The Role Writing Plays Across Curricula and Lives at an Institution Lacking Privilege 27
7. 2. “If There Was a Class That Could Make Them Confident”: Comparing the Writing Experiences of Students Who Took the First-Year Course to Those of Students Who Did Not 63
8. 3. “In Every Part of Your Writing, You Should Be Inside of It”: The First-Year Course Encouraged a New Mindset Toward Writing for Some (But Not All) 86
9. 4. “You Should Write to Know What You Don’t Know”: Three Case Studies Tracing Affordances and Limits of the First-Year Course 113
10. 5. “Being Able to Write Things Quickly, Easily”: Low-Self- Efficacy Student Writers’ Theories of Writing 151
11. Conclusion 180
12. Appendix: Open-Ended Interview Question Script 201
13. Notes 207
14. References 217
15. Index 229
16. About the Author 237