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Faculty Research & Creative Activity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
September 2005
Abstract
By focusing on local problems or issues, student writers can craft research essays that exemplify civic engagement, a practice that reaffirms composition’s tacit tradition from classical rhetoric and the educational philosophy of John Dewey.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Tim, "The Research Paper as an Act of Citizenship: Possibilities and Pragmatism" (2005). Faculty Research & Creative Activity. 165.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/eng_fac/165
https://works.bepress.com/tim_taylor/8/