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“Non-committal” is the word that comes to mind to describe Dwayne, whom I met when he was a first-semester student whose preferred seat was in the back row of one of my Developmental Writing classes. Dwayne is African-American of Ghanaian ethnic background. He was always fashionably dressed in neat collared shirts and jeans and was very social—but while he seemed to know everyone, he did not seem to be especially interested in any of the articles we were reading or work we were doing in class.
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Hollander, P.W. (2017). Students find Their People. In: Readiness Realities. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-938-6_7
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