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Download full textHe, Yuemin; Gaiser, Catherine Megliola – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2023
The five-paragraph essay is highly controversial, and yet it has also been a useful format for composition. In this essay we explain why, despite its limits, students need to go along with the format to make what use and get what advantage of it. We then demonstrate that valuing the philosophical, historical, cultural, and educational backgrounds…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Culturally Relevant Education, Asian American Students
Direct linkBalgopal, Meena M.; Wallace, Alison M.; Dahlberg, Steven – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
The research objective of this study was to describe the frames that students from two culturally distinct institutions used in their argumentative essays on a locally relevant environmental socioscientific issue. Participants (n = 47) were recruited from biology courses designed for pre-service elementary teachers at both a public university and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Environmental Education
Alvaray, Luisela – Communication Teacher, 2014
Watching images through mass media presents a challenge for understanding the complexities of different cultures within and outside the United States. Photographic images, in particular, are ubiquitous in our mediated world, populating old and interactive media and many times serving to perpetuate established codes of understanding and action.…
Descriptors: Photography, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Visual Stimuli
Kim, Il-Hee; Anderson, Richard C.; Miller, Brian; Jeong, Jongseong; Swim, Terri – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study investigated the influence of culture and discussion participation on rhetorical patterns in the reflective essays of 238 Korean and 196 American 4th-graders. Results showed significant differences between Korean children's essays and American children's essays in types of reasons, uses of argument elements, and uses of rhetorical…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Cultural Differences, Social Attitudes
Donahue, Tiane – Written Communication, 2008
Text analysis traditions in France and the United States include discourse analysis, critical linguistics, French functional linguistics, Bakhtinian dialogics, and "generous reading." These frames have not been used, however, in cross-cultural analysis of university student writing. The author presents a study of 250 student texts from…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Methods
