Rhetoric Review Sep 1994

Reassessing Janet Emig'sthe composing processes of twelfth graders:An historical perspective1

Gerald Nelms Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes I wish to thank RR peer reviewers Janice Lauer and Andrea Lunsford for their helpful advice in the composition and revision of this article. I also owe a great debt of gratitude to Janet Emig and Susan Gzesh, Emig's case study subject "Lynn"; in The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders, for allowing me to interview them at length.

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Rhetoric Review
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1994-09-01
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10.1080/07350199409359177
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