Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Dec 2008
Instructional Note: Linking Composition and Literature through Metagenres: Using Business Sales Letters in First-Year English
Abstract
By rewriting a sales letter about a short story into a literary analysis, first-year composition students not only learn rhetorical principles that are sometimes lost in a literature-based composition course but also discover the metagenres linking disciplines.
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- Teaching English in the Two-Year College
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- 2008-12-01
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- 10.58680/tetyc20086889
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McNely (2017)Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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Basgier (2014)Across the Disciplines
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