Archival literacy: Reading the rhetoric of digital archives in the undergraduate classroom

Jessica Enoch, Pamela VanHaitsma

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Abstract

This essay explores the pedagogical project of integrating digital archival research into the undergraduate classroom. We contend that rather than simply asking students to conduct such research, we should teach them first to read digital archives critically. We define this archival literacy by identifying how students might assess the rhetorical properties of various digital archives.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)216-242
Number of pages27
JournalCollege Composition and Communication
Volume67
Issue number2
StatePublished - Dec 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Education
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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