ERIC Number: EJ776217
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Publication Date: 2007-Jun
Pages: 33
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Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning "First-Year Composition" as "Introduction to Writing Studies"
Downs, Douglas; Wardle, Elizabeth
College Composition and Communication, v58 n4 p552-584 Jun 2007
In this article we propose, theorize, demonstrate, and report early results from a course that approaches first-year composition as introduction to Writing Studies. This pedagogy explicitly recognizes the impossibility of teaching a universal academic discourse and rejects that as a goal for first-year composition. It seeks instead to improve students' understanding of writing, rhetoric, language, and literacy in a course that is topically oriented to reading and writing as scholarly inquiry and that encourages more realistic conceptions of writing. (Contains 4 notes.)
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Process Approach (Writing), Writing Research, Process Education, Case Studies, Teaching Models, Writing Across the Curriculum
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