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2018
Volume 73, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

This study sought to explore how undergraduates in two majors (chemistry and English) at one US public university constructed identities of belonging in academic life stories, and how these stories may be understood as relating to their evaluations of what they identified as personally meaningful disciplinary writing.

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