Advising Underprepared Transfer Students: Integrating English Assessment and Academic Advising
Academic advisors make important contributions to preventing the academic difficulties of underprepared transfer students through active cooperation with the English composition program. Joint efforts to get students evaluated and placed at the appropriate level of English composition instruction can encourage reading, writing, and critical thinking competencies that enhance students' performance in their other academic courses.
Contributor Notes
Elizabeth J. Cooper is now Director of Composition and Rhetoric at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Johannah S. Franke is an academic advisor in Lehman College's Office of Undergraduate Studies. Address correspondence concerning this article to Elizabeth J. Cooper, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2005.
