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Journal of Basic Writing

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A CUNY-published, peer-reviewed journal about basic writing, college access, literacy instruction, and educational equity.

Why it surfaced

Its archive spans 44 volumes, 578 articles, and nearly fifty years of writing research, from its founding by Mina Shaughnessy in 1975 through a 2025 issue on antiracist and decolonial teaching. It is a notably focused record of how colleges have tried to teach writing—and whom they have tried to include.

Lunch Through the Bee Veil

August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-11 Domain Arrivals issue.