Pedagogy Apr 2012

Africanized Patterns of Expression

Staci M. Perryman-Clark

Abstract

In response to the need for additional teacher-research on African American students, this article offers a case study of how one African American student-writer successfully produces expository writing in an Afrocentric first-year writing course at Michigan State University, a large land-grant midwestern research institution.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2012-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-1503586
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition qualitative research

Citation Context

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