Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing, published in 1977 by Oxford University Press, was the first book-length investigation of writing problems experienced by under-prepared college freshmen.
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Perhaps the central and most important observation Shaughnessy makes is that there is a pattern to student error.
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This research—funded in part by the Carnegie Foundation grant—coupled with her own experience provides the foundation of the book which seeks both to inform basic writing instructors and provide them with a means for approaching their students’ areas of weakness.
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