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2018
Volume 50, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0098-6291
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Abstract

This article explores how we eliminated—without lowering student success rates—our developmental writing and reading courses (three to seven noncredit hours) and shifted to an all-inclusive, no-placement-necessary, integrated reading and writing course for first-year comp.

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