First-year Composition and Antecedent Genres
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2006-03-24Author
Devitt, Amy J.
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This presentation describes the results of a study that examines how students take up their antecedent genres (from high school, community college, workplace, home culture, personal history) when they write new genres in first-year composition courses. Based on this research, I argue that first-year composition has value as a middle-space class that teaches potential antecedent genres—both how students build on and deploy the antecedent genres they bring and how the genres students learn in first-year composition courses function as antecedents for the genres they write in school and beyond.
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Conference presentation for Conference on College Composition and Communication
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Devitt, Amy J. "First-year Composition and Antecedent Genres." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, 24 March, 2006. Conference Presentation.
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