Connecting the texts of their lives to academic literacy: Creating success for at risk first-year college students

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 664-673

  Maloney, Wendy Hall ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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