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Porter, Don; O'Sullivan, Barry – 1994
A study investigated how perception of the reader's age in relation to the age of the writer affects assessment of writing. Subjects were 26 Japanese women college students of English as a Second Language, all of whom had recently participated in a home-stay program in an English-speaking country. They were given the task of writing brief letters…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audience Awareness, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Widmer, Ellen – International Journal of Social Education, 1991
Discusses the relationship between the prominence of themes of the literate gentry woman in Chinese fiction and the rise of women poets. Examines later Japanese fiction to find influences of the woman reader and of earlier Chinese works. Explores the scholar-beauty novels, women as warriors, female martyrdom, and the equating of virtue with…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Authors, Chinese Culture, Confucianism