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"Seeing Yourself in a Photograph for the First Time": Discomfort and Critical Thinking in the Basic Writing Classroom

Panel: 
Composition and Rhetoric II: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Strategies for Composition Skills
Abstract: 

This paper examines the ways in which, in socioeconomically, ethnically, and racially diverse basic writing classrooms at two-year colleges, assignments on "native language," ethnicity and race create "discomfort" and thus engender critical thinking.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Oceana
Last Name: 
Callum
Institution: 
Orange Coast College