Convention as Transition: Linking the Advanced Composition Course to the College Curriculum.

Moore, Leslie; Peterson, Linda

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Publication Date: 1983

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Convention as Transition: Linking the Advanced Composition Course to the College Curriculum.

Moore, Leslie; Peterson, Linda

Journal of Advanced Composition, v4 p173-87 1983

Suggests the concept of convention provides a basis for teaching the cross-curricular writing course. Describes an experimental freshman writing course which focused on the written discourse of five disciplines: art history, history, biology, literature, and philosophy. (RAE)

Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis, English Departments, Writing Across the Curriculum

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Language: English

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