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- ISSN: 0098-6291
- E-ISSN: 1943-2356
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Instructional Note: Linking Composition and Literature through Metagenres: Using Business Sales Letters in First-Year English
- Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 36, Issue 2, Dec 2008, p. 177 - 185
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- 01 Dec 2008
Abstract
By rewriting a sales letter about a short story into a literary analysis, first-year composition students not only learn rhetorical principles that are sometimes lost in a literature-based composition course but also discover the metagenres linking disciplines.
© 2008 by the National Council of Teachers of English