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2018
Volume 46, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0098-6291
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2356
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Abstract

This article describes a one-session classroom activity that employs an unusual creative nonfiction genre (the hermit crab essay) to initiate first-year writers into the practice of successfully integrating academic research in their work. I share step-by-step instructions for implementation, along with classroom resources and materials necessary to conduct the assignment.

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