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2018
Volume 49, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0098-6291
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Abstract

Based on an IRB-approved study, this article shows how understanding students’ lived and experienced curriculum can help first-year-writing teachers support the high-school-to-college transition.

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