Teaching about writing, righting misconceptions: (Re)envisioning "first-year composition" as "introduction to Writing Studies"

College Composition and Communication

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 552-554

  Downs, Douglas ^a   Wardle, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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