So What Might You Be Interested In?

• prewriting strategies
• what is literacy?  what is discourse?
  
• genres and conventions
• memoir writing
• notetaking
• college life and the transition to college
  
• college degrees (what's an associate degree? a bachelors? etc.), college writing
  
• primary versus secondary research
• research methods; conducting research
• collaborative writing: research reports
  

First Paragraph of My Last Section: What Do You Think?

ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS

A contemporary map representing US research on ELL programming would look a bit like an early 19^th century European map of Africa: detailed around the coasts and in areas of interesting concentration, a few big cities shown along major rivers, and a broad vacant swath through the middle reading Inland Parts Almost Entirely Unknown.  This project has been an attempt to fill in some of that blank space by charting forgotten territory, to discover and share what is happening in rural and small town middle America.  One simple answer is that a lot is happening. The changes are rapid and radical, and school districts are struggling to catch up, let alone plan ahead.  They face a host of stringent challenges, including scarcity of funds, staff, experience, and guidance.  Yet there is reason to be hopeful, for these schools are stretching and reinventing themselves to meet the needs of their students.  Creative and resourceful educators are actively seeking relevant research to inform their policies and improve their practice.  ELL programs in rural and small town American high schools could potentially go from forgotten stories to success stories, if the infrastructure of the education system doesn’t doom them before they get the chance.

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