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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"contrastive rhetoric"”.
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Argumentation pragmatics, text analysis, and contrastive rhetoric
The contrastive rhetoric hypothesis (Kaplan, 1966) predicts that language users across cultures will vary in the means they use to construct coherent discourse. The problem for contrastive rhetoric research is to develop a method for reliably describing this variation. To this end, a number of …
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A Contrastive Rhetoric Study of Korean and English Research Paper Introductions
It seems that Swales' model is too much based too strongly on niche establishment, including gaps in previous studies, and ignores other possible ways of writing RA introductions. The CARS model is a good writing models and a good tool for the analysis of RAs; however, we might need other models or …
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A Contrastive Rhetoric Study of Thai and *American Students' English Application Essays for Graduate Admissions
Regarding the analysis of positive and negative politeness strategies, none of the students used positive or negative politeness strategies exclusively. When comparing the occurrences of the two types of strategies within the same group of students, the Thai and American students both preferred …
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Argumentative essays written by native speakers of Chinese and English: A study in contrastive rhetoric
… most important and the most difficult to master. Contrastive rhetoricians have claimed its mastery can be especially difficult for international students, who bring to English rhetorical conventions that do not meet American teachers' expectations. This study investigates structural differences …
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Adaptation of the EPT specification to a Ukrainian argumentative writing test within the contrastive rhetoric approach
… Unified State Examination (USE) within the contrastive rhetoric approach. Never before has any argumentative writing test spec been adapted with a consideration of contrastive rhetoric findings in English and Ukrainian. The purpose of the research is to develop the Ukrainian language …
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Impacts of cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric of academic writing in English and academic writing in students' L1s
… pedagogical approach of employing cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric (CCCR) comparisons in graduate-level ESL Writing Service Courses at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Two 501-level classes were recruited to participate in this study: one class received CCCR instruction and …
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Essays of Korean and *American Children Following Collaborative Literature Discussion
The present study sheds new light on the field of contrastive rhetoric and research on children's argumentation.
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Cohesion and coherence in Chinese ESL writing
… features for effective writing. Studies in contrastive rhetoric and text linguistics suggest that cohesion and coherence may vary across languages and cultures. This study examined cohesion and coherence features of Chinese ESL writings, explored the similarities and the differences between …
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The expression of topic continuity by noun and pronoun phrasing and zero anaphora in first-year research writing
… in the devices used. Researchers in the field of contrastive rhetoric (e.g., Garing, 2014; Rogers, 2004) have explored varied rhetorical styles across languages, but to my knowledge, there has been no research on the use of nouns vs. pronouns vs. zero anaphora (Ø) to express cohesion by ESL …
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Looking behind the Writing: The design and implementation of a framework to provide transitional support for the development of written articulacy at PG level – a University of Cambridge Case Study
… and 2) that, drawing on Kaplan’s theory of contrastive rhetoric, the key additional challenge for L2 postgraduates was not linguistic, but was rhetorical transfer, namely, the transfer of the argumentational paradigms of their L1 into English. Using the University’s criterion for work …
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An examination of hedging and boosting devices used in academic discourse: Case of 2014 and 2015 master of Arts in English Studies thesis at the University of Namibia
… taxonomy of hedges and boosters. Kaplan’s (1997) Contrastive Rhetoric Theory was used to explain how researchers use hedges and boosters to express their uncertainties and certainties respectively. The study revealed that writers prefer Type 3 of hedges and boosters in all the three chapters. The …
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Theory and practice of teaching composition in Syrian universities
… it possible to confirm or disconfirm Kaplan's Contrastive Rhetorical Hypothesis (1966), and so reflects on the broad question of crosscultural difficulties in composition that EFL students routinely face. In the light of the above findings, two types of proposal are made: recommendations …
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Metadiscourse in the Academic Writing of EFL and ESL Arabic-Speaking Iraqi Graduate Students
<p>Metadiscourse is a universal rhetorical aspect of languages embodying the notion that the purpose of writing is not only informative; rather, it is a social act enhancing a writer-reader interaction and building effective communicative relationships, thereby creating a reader-friendly text. This …
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Combining content-based and EAP approaches to academic writing: Towards an eclectic program
Over the past decade, Australian universities have experienced an exponential increase in the enrolment of fee-paying overseas students whose preparation for tertiary studies may differ significantly from that of local students. Despite English language proficiency requirements, there is some …