Hello, all,
The editorial staff of The Journal of Basic Writing would like to congratulate JBW authors on receiving recent publication accolades.
Margaret E. Weaver, Kailyn Shartel Hall, and Tracey A. Glaessgen’s article, “Challenging Assumptions about Basic Writers and Corequisites at Four-Year Institutions,” has received the Council of Writing Program Administrators Outstanding Scholarship Award for 2022. Weaver, Hall, and Glaessgen illuminate the importance of interrogating lore about corequisite models for writing instruction and remind readers of the value of centering the local concerns of our institutions’ student populations in WPA work. Read the full article, published in vol. 41, no.1-2 of the journal, here: https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/jbw/v41n1-2/weaveretal.pdf
Annie S. Mendenhall’s article, “Admission to One… Admission to All”: The (End of the) Radical Dream of Open Admissions in the Post-Desegregation South," has been selected for publication in Parlor Press’s Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2023. Mendenhall parses the history of Open Admissions in the Southern United States from the 1960s-1990s. She traces how conservative efforts to institute “nominal Open Admissions” defined by remediation undermined civil rights activists’ vision for “transformative Open Admissions” policies that would have reimagined educational access. Read the full article, published in a special issue on Democracy and Basic Writing, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Open Admissions, here: https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/jbw/v42n1/mendenhall.pdf. We’d like to extend a special thanks to Lynn Reid and Jack Morales for guest editing this issue.
If you are a JBW author whose work has been recognized and/or adopted by communities within and outside academia, or if you have found specific JBW articles useful to your work, please let us know by emailing jbwcuny We look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
JBW Editorial Team