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Peer reviewedRossen-Knill, Deborah; Lynch, Kim – Journal of Basic Writing, 2000
Presents a holistic method for describing basic writers and their writing to encourage classroom research at two- and four-year colleges and enables comparisons of basic writers across institutions. Offers some preliminary results from the pilot study to illustrate the type of findings this approach yields and highlights the importance of such…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Direct linkCenter, Carole – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2004
Contrastive rhetoric provides tools that community college teachers need in order to understand the rhetorical forms that students from other cultures employ. Greater understanding of contrastive rhetoric can change the way that teachers interpret the difficulty linguistically different students may have in using conventional American academic…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)
