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Repositioning The I-Search: An Assignment For Negotiating Prior Writing Knowledge In Fyc, Adrienne Jankens

English Faculty Research Publications

This article describes the outcomes of a teacher-research study on inquiry-based assignments and near transfer of writing-related knowledge that led to the revision of the I-Search assignment (which Macrorie [1988, The I-Search Paper] describes as a paper that “tell[s] the story of what you did in your search, in the order in which everything happened”) for integration into an argument and research-centered First Year Composition curriculum.