“Nobody who can’t write can get a degree here”: The story of a Canadian university writing test

By Laura Dunbar

We see our study as falling into the category of writing program historiography known as microhistory: a narrative reconstruction that explores in thorough detail a particular time period in a specific writing program’s history while striving to…

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