Abstract

Using assignments drawn from a first-year composition course that centers the Southern Life Histories Collection, part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project, this paper argues for a pedagogical approach that teaches students digital literacy through archival rhetorics by converting archival texts into data.

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College Composition and Communication
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2019-06-01
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10.58680/ccc201930178
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  1. College Composition and Communication
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