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2018
Volume 75, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

Using classroom play to promote comfort between composition students, encouraging greater participation and experimentation by helping students feel safe traversing educational and social boundaries, is supported in a theoretical lens connecting play to both pedagogy and various literacies valued in college writing. One practical framework, with student interviews, is described.

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