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Liminal Spaces and Research Identity: The Construction of Introductory Composition Students as Researchers
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 13, Issue 1, Winter 2013
- pp. 9-41
- Article
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This article argues that prevailing approaches to research instruction in introductory composition courses, as represented in print and digital instructional materials, reflect outdated theoretical views and may damage students' researcher identity. Teaching research as a closed, linear, universal process prevents students from leaving the liminal space of the composition classroom.