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Volume 70, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006
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Abstract

Using assignments drawn from a first-year composition course that centers the Southern Life Histories Collection, part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project, this paper argues for a pedagogical approach that teaches students digital literacy through archival rhetorics by converting archival texts into data.

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