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2018
Volume 47, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0098-6291
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2356
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Abstract

In our analysis of seventy-five FYC writing assignment prompts, we identify common elements and offer pedagogical suggestions so faculty can use assignment sheets as rhetorical tools to introduce students to writing studies’ threshold concepts.

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