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2018
Volume 107, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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Abstract

This article examines the power of composing images as students construct identities and shape their own worlds. It illustrates student empowerment through agency, intellectual engagement, and community investment and suggests that composing with images forms a bridge back to alphabetic-centric composing.

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