Abstract

This article theorizes how students know when to activate knowledge acquired in FYC courses. Addressing knowledge activation as motivated by pursuing activity-specific objectives, the author calls for situating students’ encounter with and acquisition of rhetorical knowledge and practices of writing as knowledge of how to perform activities other than writing.

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College Composition and Communication
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2019-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201929987
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  1. Pedagogy
  2. College Composition and Communication
  3. College English

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