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Download full textYang, Melissa T. – Composition Studies, 2023
This essay illuminates adaptable and multimodal ways of teaching with etymology and idiomatic origin stories in the composition classroom. I model my pedagogical approach with a topic central to my rhetorical research--pigeons in histories of human communication--and the rich etymologically-linked concepts of homing in, pigeonholing, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Etymology, Language Patterns, Educational Practices
