Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 2020

Feature: Threshold Concepts and FYC Writing Prompts: Helping Students Discover Composition’s Common Knowledge with(in) Assignment Sheets

Dawn Formo ; Kimberly Robinson Neary

Abstract

In our analysis of seventy-five FYC writing assignment prompts, we identify common elements and offer pedagogical suggestions so faculty can use assignment sheets as rhetorical tools to introduce students to writing studies’ threshold concepts.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2020-05-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc202030647
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition threshold concepts

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Hassel et al. (2022)
    Feature: Decoding Writing Studies: First-Generation Students, Pedagogies of Acc…
    Teaching English in the Two-Year College

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