College English Sep 2015

New Pedagogical Engagements with Archives: Student Inquiry and Composing in Digital Spaces

Pamela VanHaitsma

Abstract

This essay advances a new pedagogical approach to engaging with archives in undergraduate courses. Through this approach, students not only examine traditional archival materials from the past, but also create new online archives of present-day sources they identify as related. Rather than training undergraduate students to become archival specialists, this pedagogy invites them to inquire into the relevance of archival materials to their own everyday lives and composing practices in digital spaces.

Journal
College English
Published
2015-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ce201527436
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  1. Ramirez (2024)
    Digging the Archives in Composition Stretch Pedagogies: Reclamation of Historic…
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  3. McDaneld (2021)
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    Pedagogy
  4. Enoch (2020)
    Rewriting a Woman’s Life (Online)
    Pedagogy
  5. Bates (2020)
    Activist Archival Research, Environmental Intervention, and the Flint Water Crisis
    Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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  1. Rivard (2019)
    Turning Archives into Data: Archival Rhetorics and Digital Literacy in the Comp…
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  2. Lueck et al. (2019)
    Frameworks for Collaboration
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    The Rhetorical Power of Archival Description: Classifying Images of Gender Tran…
    Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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