"The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice" : African American Student Writers and the National Assessment of Educational Progress / Geneva Smitherman.

A study analyzed the degree to which an African American verbal tradition (Black English Vernacular) survives in the writing of Black students across a generational time span. A total of 867 essays from the 1984 and the 1988/89 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were subjected to pri...

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Main Author: Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1993.
Subjects:
Black Dialects.
Black Students.
Comparative Analysis.
Cultural Context.
Discourse Analysis.
Discourse Communities.
Elementary Secondary Education.
Higher Education.
Writing Achievement.
Writing Evaluation.
Writing Research.
African Americans > National Assessment of Educational Progress
Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Reports, Research.
Genre:
Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Reports, Research.
Physical Description:37 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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