College Composition and Communication Jun 2007

Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions:

Douglas Downs ; Elizabeth Wardle

Abstract

In this article we propose, theorize, demonstrate, and report early results from a course that approaches first-year composition as introduction to Writing Studies. This pedagogy explicitly recognizes the impossibility of teaching a universal academic discourse and rejects that as a goal for first-year composition. It seeks instead to improve students’ understanding of writing, rhetoric, language, and literacy in a course that is topically oriented to reading and writing as scholarly inquiry and that encourages more realistic conceptions of writing.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2007-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20075923
Topics
first-year composition

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