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Hinds, John – 1982
Research is reviewed on systematic differences in expository styles due to cultural or linguistic diversity. The critique concentrates on the method of data gathering, the usage of the categorization "Oriental," and the description of English paragraph development. An investigation is reported that consisted of an analysis of the Japanese and…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English

Gibb, Carson – English Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English Instruction, Expository Writing, Reference Materials

Kubota, Ryuko – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
A study compared university students' Japanese and English native-language essays (22 expository, 24 persuasive) in terms of organization and macrolevel discourse features. Results indicate inductive rhetorical patterns were more common in Japanese than English essays and more common in persuasive than expository mode across languages. However,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis

Crew, Louie – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Compares the rhetorical strategies of 20 opening paragraphs from "Psychology Today" to those in 20 first paragraphs from student essays. Observes that professionals regularly begin exposition with narratives, indirection, and irony, while students begin with rhetorical questions, truisms, and muddled strategies. Concludes that students'…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Lindeberg, Ann-Charlotte – 1984
A study to find patterns of cohesion and rhetorical structure that distinguish good from weak English essay writing is described. The corpus consisted of ten Swedish college essays written as part of the final exam in a first-year English course. Methodological problems encountered included the delimitation of units for the analysis of cohesive…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Comparative Analysis