Multimodality, Translingualism, and Rhetorical Genre Studies.

This article situates one possible future for rhetorical genre studies (RGS) in the translingual, multimodal composing practices of linguistically diverse composition students. Using focus group data collected with L1 (English as a first language) and L2 (English as a second language) students at tw...

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Publicado en:Composition Forum Vol. 31; pp. 1 - 2
Autor principal: Gonzales, Laura
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Publicado: Composition Forum Spring2015
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