Tanita Saenkhum

Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses

In Decisions, Agency, and Advising: Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses, I investigate how multilingual writers—including international students and residents or US citizens who are non-native users of English—make their placement decisions and find that students’ own agency is essential when they decide to take a mainstream or multilingual composition course. 

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• Syracuse University, $1,000 in support of Economies of Writing edited by Bruce Horner, Brice Nordquist, and Susan M. Ryan
• Texas State University, $2,000 in support of Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors by Nicole I. Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Rebecca Jackson
• University of Colorado Natural History Museum, $2,500 in support of Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks by Erin A. Tripp
• University of Louisville, $1,000 in support of Economies of Writing edited by Bruce Horner, Brice Nordquist, and Susan M. Ryan
• University of Oklahoma, $2,000 in support of The Meaningful Writing Project by Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner
• University of Tennessee, $1,590 in support of Decisions, Agency, and Advising by Tanita Saenkhum

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Tanita Saenkhum is assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she directs the English as a Second Language (ESL) program and teaches courses on second language writing and TESOL. She has published in Journal of Second Language Writing, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies. Her writing has appeared in several edited collections.