Archival Research

Using Recipe Archives for Place-Based Research and Writing

Archival Research, Assignments, Place-based Writing /

Ashley M. Beardsley Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Cookbooks “allude to meals and events, people and places, success and failures, joys and sorrows, lives and deaths” representing “the life worlds—past and present—of their creators” (Theophano 83). Through archival research, students explore how cookbooks and recipes are more than instructions that teach people how to […]

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At Work in the Archives: Place-Based Research and Writing

Archival Research, drafting and revising, Place-based Writing, primary source research, rhetorical appeals and argument /

Lynée Lewis Gaillet & Jessica Rose Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter outlines a plan for incorporating primary and archival research into first year writing course designs. Correlating directly with recent college initiatives and composition best practices, archival research asks students to see themselves as experts, engage in rhetorical activism, and take on college-to-career projects.

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