Teaching English in the Two-Year College Dec 2018

Instructional Note: What Work Is”: Writing about Work in First-Year Composition

Christian Aguiar

Abstract

This article explores the use of the work narrative to engage students, particularly FLI (first-generation and low-income) students.

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Teaching English in the Two-Year College
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2018-12-01
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10.58680/tetyc201829950
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Cited by in this index (2)

  1. Budhathoki (2022)
    Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Literacies in Literacy Narratives
    Literacy in Composition Studies
  2. Hassel et al. (2022)
    Feature: Decoding Writing Studies: First-Generation Students, Pedagogies of Acc…
    Teaching English in the Two-Year College

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  2. Carter (2017)
    Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class
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  3. Coles (2007)
    American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology
  4. Cruz (2017)
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    Beyond the Bridge Metaphor: Rethinking the Place of the Literacy Narrative in the Curriculum
    Journal of Basic Writing  ↗
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    Mind, Culture, and Activity  ↗
  9. Thelin
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    Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work
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