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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 33
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-096X
EISSN: EISSN-1939-9006
Turning Archives into Data: Archival Rhetorics and Digital Literacy in the Composition Classroom
Courtney Rivard
College Composition and Communication, v70 n4 p527-559 2019
Using assignments drawn from a first-year composition course that centers the Southern Life Histories Collection, part of the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project, this paper argues for a pedagogical approach that teaches students digital literacy through archival rhetorics by converting archival texts into data.
Descriptors: Archives, Writing (Composition), Media Adaptation, Electronic Publishing, Biographies, Digital Literacy, Metadata, Visual Aids, Data, Rhetoric, Instruction, Content Area Writing, Computer Software, Cooperative Learning, Social Justice, Feminism, Indexing
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