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Hurlbert, Claude Mark; Blitz, Michael – Composition Studies, 2003
Considers how over 10 years of teaching first-year composition, more than two-thirds of the authors' students have elected to write about things that have caused them sorrow, about the deaths of loved ones, about the deaths of neighbors, even of hope itself. Composes a set of "meditations" - brief essays in which the authors try to understand…
Descriptors: Death, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Writing Models
