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Wiley, Mark – Rhetoric Review, 1992
Suggests focusing historical narratives explaining composition's emergence and search for an identity by concentrating on the changing face of rhetoric within institutional settings. Investigates the cultural history of the term "process." Explores what the unacknowledged cultural values "process" bring to reading and writing and the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
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Clachar, Arlene – Research in the Teaching of English, 2000
Investigates cross-cultural tensions in Western writing pedagogy as reflected in Turkish teachers' oppositional and accommodative attitudes and how those attitudes played out in classroom interactions. Discusses teachers' perceptions concerning the effects of Western rhetorical styles on Turkish students' thinking and identity, assumptions…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Carter, Ronnie D. – 1986
Members of the Polish faculty at the English Institute (Poland) primarily use English as a second language (ESL) techniques to teach writing, with grammar and idiom drills, and little writing beyond the sentence level. An American professor, on the other hand, used a process approach to teach writing by providing specific instructions about…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Theories, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries