A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Understanding Expectations and Mapping Preferences for Writing Classroom Design

Dana Gierdowski and Susan Miller-Cochran

• Introduction
• Review of Literature
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements

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