The Language of Coats

Nancy Sommers

doi:10.58680/ce19983692

ISSN: 0010-0994
E-ISSN: 2161-8178

The Language of Coats
Author(s): Nancy Sommers
Source: College English, Volume 60, Issue 4, Apr 1998, p. 421 - 425
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/ce19983692
- Published online: 01 Apr 1998

Abstract

Compares 20 years of teaching college writing (and reading countless drafts of student papers) to an immigrant father’s working 40 years in the family store in Terre Haute, Indiana (and selling 350,000 coats).

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