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

Abstract

This piece narrates the year-long journey of students who successfully responded in a variety of genres to a statewide writing test that traditionally calls for nonfictional prose essays.

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