Two Classrooms, Two Writing Communities: Urban and Suburban Tenth Graders Learning to Write.

Concerned with writing instruction and learning in contexts of student diversity, this study investigates how classroom communities were created to support students' writing in two contrasting tenth-grade English classrooms, one in a lowincome urban school with socioculturally diverse students, and one in a largely white middle-class suburban school. The researchers analyze class discussions to see how discussions functioned in creating...