Forms of Discourse: What Their Originators Intended.

Adams, Katherine S.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Forms of Discourse: What Their Originators Intended.

Adams, Katherine S.

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v11 n2 p17-22 Dec 1984

Analyzes changes in content and shifts in emphasis in rhetoric texts from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. Suggests that the current-traditional approach to the teaching of rhetoric used in most college classrooms has a strong similarity to that advocated by early rhetoricians. (RBW)

Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis, Educational History, Expository Writing, Narration, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric, Textbook Content, Textbooks, Writing Instruction

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