Bordered Writers

Isabel Baca is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the editor of Service-Learning and Writing: Paving the Way for Literacy(ies) through Community Engagement. Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. Susan Wolff Murphy is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. She is the coeditor (with Cristina Kirklighter and Diana Cardenas) of Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, also published by SUNY Press.

Foreword: Celebrating Bordered Writers
Cristina Kirklighter

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Isabel Baca, Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, and Susan Wolff Murphy

Testimonio 1
A Family Testimonio en Confianza: Becoming Pocho
Steven Alvarez

Part I. Developmental English and Bridge Programs

1. Translingualism and ALP: A Rhetorical Model for Bordered Latinx Writers
Lucas Corcoran and Caroline Wilkinson

2. Developmental Instructors in the Contact Zone: Perspectives from Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges
Erin Doran

3. “One Foot on the Bridge and One Foot off the Bridge”: Navigating the Geographies of Access and Rhetorical Education at an HSI
Jens Lloyd

Testimonio 2
Finding Anzaldua: A West Texas Testimonio
Christine Garcia

Part II. First-Year Writing

4. Rhetorical Tools in Chicanx Thought: Political and Ethnic Inquiry for Composition Classrooms
Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa and Candace de León-Zepeda

5. Familismo Teaching: A Pedagogy for Promoting Student Motivation and College Success
Yemin Sánchez, Nicole Nicholson, and Marcela Hebbard

6. Teaching with Bordered Writers: Reconstructing Narratives of Difference, Mobility, and Translingualism
Beatrice Mendez Newman and Romeo García

Testimonio 3
Inhabiting the Border
Heather Lang

Part III. Professional and Technical Writing

7. Hispanic-Serving Institution as Programmatic Invention: Identifying Learning Objectives for HSI Writing Programs
Kendall Leon and Aydé Enríquez-Loya

8. Teaching Technical Communication on the Mexico/U.S. Border: A Brief Case Study
Laura Gonzales

Testimonio 4
English, Español, or Los Dos
Isabel Baca

Part IV. Writing Centers and Mentored Writing

9. On Longing and Belonging: Latinas in the Writing Center
Nancy Alvarez

10. Mentored Writing at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: Improving Student Facility with Scientific Discourse
Heather M. Falconer

Testimonio 5
The Invisibility of a Lack of Privilege and the Homelessness of a First-Generation Latina Student in Higher Education
Kaylee Cruz

Contributors
Index