Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2019

Instructional Note: Hermit Crabs to the Rescue: Using Creative Nonfiction as a Bridge to Academic Prose

Jennifer Young

Abstract

This article describes a one-session classroom activity that employs an unusual creative nonfiction genre (the hermit crab essay) to initiate first-year writers into the practice of successfully integrating academic research in their work. I share step-by-step instructions for implementation, along with classroom resources and materials necessary to conduct the assignment.

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Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2019-03-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc201930157
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