Going North Thinking West: The Intersections of Social Class, Critical Thinking, and Politicized Writing Instruction

About the Author

ab o Ut the aUtho r irvin peckham is the director of the university writing program at Louisiana State University. His two research interests are writing assessment and the intersections of social class and writing instruction. He has published chapters in several edited collections and articles in journals such as WPA: Writing Program Administration, Composition Studies, Pedagogy, Computers and Composition, English Journal, College Composition and Communication, and co-edited with Sherry Linkon and Benjamin Lanier-Nabors a special issue of College English focusing on social class and writing instruction. ...