ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of working adults returning to college has generated a great deal of interest and curricular experimentation since the 1970s. In Second Shift: Teaching Writing to Working Adults, Kelly Belanger and Linda Strom describe innovative approaches to writing instruction in five worker education programs affiliated with colleges or universities. Issues associated with remediation must inevitably be confronted by such programs, where the prevailing view is that noncredit remedial courses are inappropriate for mature adults returning to college. At Youngstown State University and Swingshift College, for example, Kelly Belanger and Linda Strom developed a mixed ability writing course addressing the needs of the working students who belong to a steelworkers’ union (72-84).
