Summary Of Mike Rose Lives On The Boundaries

In Lives on the Boundaries, Mike Rose claims that developmental English classes that are meant for remedial students are not actually helping them to become literate. The curriculum is actually hindering students from becoming literate. Rose states that those kinds of remedial classes teach the students that writing is about structure and being grammatically correct instead of being a way to express meaningful ideas. Because of these “corrective teachings”, the students see writing as tedious. Rose’s claim relates to his descriptions of two different English classes. Developmental English at a state college in Ohio, and English A at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the Developmental English course in Ohio, Rose explains how the