Writing to Learn: Benefits and Limitations

College Teaching

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 170-175

  Fry, Sara Winstead ^a   Villagomez, Amanda ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Four Rivers Community School   (United States)

Author keywords

student learning; writing; writing to learn

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884295797     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2012.697081     Document Type: Article

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