Texts of our institutional lives: Studying the "reading transition" from high school to college: What are our students reading and why?

College English

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 599-617

  Jolliffe, David A ^a,b   Harl, Allison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Arkansas Delta Oral History Project ^*

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