Bad Ideas About Writing,
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First-Year Composition Should Be Skipped, by Paul G. Cook

Paul G. Cook reads his own bad idea chapter, "First-Year Composition Should Be Skipped." Audio and text of this section are available below.

Chapter keywords: rhetorical listening, contingent labor, deep learning, dual enrollment, ethics, first-year composition, literacy, rhetoric, writing pedagogy

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