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Skills/Strategies to perfect:
Practice critical thinking and working with contact zones using student
writing (and validating this writing)
o Rewrite work and provide an analysis demonstrating critical
thinking and how ones revision reflects their understanding of
contact zones and uses their own backgrounds, styles, and
beliefs in support of the revision
Who is involved:
Students and student writing. Students are composers and critical
thinkers. Teachers provide the guidance in order to allow for a fruitful
discussion using contact zones
To what end practiced or performed:
Composition is about thinking, talking about different
perspectives/backgrounds, and writing thoughtfully.
Taught:
To foreground the concepts of "resistance" and "change" when analyzing the
styles of a student or "real" writer, I ask students to read deviations from the