Computers and Composition Jun 2018

First-Year Composition as “Big Data”: Towards Examining Student Revisions at Scale

Chris Holcomb University of South Carolina ; Duncan A. Buell University of South Carolina
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Computers and Composition
Published
2018-06-01
DOI
10.1016/j.compcom.2018.03.003
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