College Composition and Communication Feb 2022

Exploring Narrated Belonging in/through Disciplinary Writing

Justin Nicholes

Abstract

This study sought to explore how undergraduates in two majors (chemistry and English) at one US public university constructed identities of belonging in academic life stories, and how these stories may be understood as relating to their evaluations of what they identified as personally meaningful disciplinary writing.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2022-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202231876
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