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2018
Volume 95, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

Looking into two classrooms, this article examines students engaging in dialogue between the imaginative and critical while considering ideas about what it means to write nonfiction.

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