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Cultivating Writers: Figurative Language in the Developmental Class
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Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose