College Composition and Communication Jun 2019

Turning Archives into Data: Archival Rhetorics and Digital Literacy in the Composition Classroom

Courtney Rivard

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.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2019-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201930178
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition archival research digital rhetoric

Citation Context

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