Abstract
Every first-year college composition course shares one purpose: to help beginning college students become better writers. We shape our courses and our instruction around the assumption that we know what constitutes good college writing or what skills good college writers should have. More specifically, as instructors we want to help students learn to write the academic prose that is expected and required in the discourse community of the university. We also have a sense that the recent high school graduates who inhabit our classes are not yet prepared to enter that discourse community, that their writing is quantitatively and perhaps even qualitatively different from that of seasoned college writers. We assume that between high school writing and college writing exists a boundary that is real, if undefinable, and it is across that boundary that our students must travel.
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