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2018
Volume 114, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

Four high school English teachers and a college professor engaged in an “instructional experiment” that focused on the verbatim docudrama

The laramie project.

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