Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2007

Instructional Note: Of “Indians,” History, and Truth: Postmodernism 101 for First-Year Students

Nicole Wiley

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This article details a strategy for empowering students in a first-semester composition course through cultural literacy by using Jane Tompkins’s essay “‘Indians’: Textualism, Morality,and the Problem of History,” in my first-semester college composition course.

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Teaching English in the Two-Year College
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2007-03-01
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10.58680/tetyc20076065
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