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2018
Volume 70, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

While scholars of writing have increasingly turned toward economic issues, the role of debt has remained largely absent from composition scholarship. This article takes stock of the material and ideological magnitude of student debt in the age of neoliberalism and proposes bringing the subject into the writing classroom.

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