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2018
Volume 75, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

Drawing from a qualitative study, this article advocates for challenging myths about the traditional graduate student. We discuss how these myths create a sense of unbelonging for graduate students, and we call attention to the exigency for transforming graduate programs to validate and sustain students’ diverse literacies and linguistic resources.

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