College Composition and Communication Feb 2018

Pathways to Freedom: From the Archives to the Street

Deborah Mutnick

Abstract

This article describes how a first-year learning community combining library, archival, and digital literacies facilitated students’ grasp of threshold concepts of academic research and writing. It argues that critical-rhetorical processes and pedagogies can help counteract neoliberal educational trends that interpellate students as consumers rather than learners.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2018-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201829487
Open Access
Closed
Topics
threshold concepts multilingual writers

Citation Context

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    College Composition and Communication
  3. Enoch et al. (2019)
    Decoding (a Woman’s) Diaries: The Transcribe-A-Thon as an Undergraduate Public …
    College English

Cites in this index (1)

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    College English
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