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Direct linkEngbers, Susanna Kelly – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Each semester the author asks her first-year composition students to write a profile essay. The assignment, based on one in "St Martin's Guide to Writing," requires that students develop a thesis ("dominant impression" or "angle") about a place that they visit. The author is convinced that this essay is one of the most valuable and challenging…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Profiles, Theses, Essays
