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Download full textAdler-Kassner, Linda – 1996
In a basic-level writing course at the University of Minnesota, students were asked to read and engage in intelligent conservation about Keith Gilyard's "Voices of the Self." The book is about education but alternates autobiographical material with scholarly analysis. Literacy researchers expect students to read a text, understand what…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Electronic Mail, Higher Education
