College English Apr 1998

The Language of Coats

Nancy Sommers

Abstract

Compares 20 years of teaching college writing (and reading countless drafts of student papers) to an immigrant father’s working 40 years in the family store in Terre Haute, Indiana (and selling 350,000 coats).

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College English
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1998-04-01
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10.58680/ce19983692
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