This article evaluates the efficacy of explicit genre-based instruction by sensitizing the ESL learners to the concept of genre. The main questions addressed are: How does sensitizing ESL learners to the rhetorical move structure of a genre, the communicative purposes of these moves, and linguistic features that realize these moves help them to…

Based on the premise that the most viable form of discovery for the ethnographer is the personal essay--which has been called "the expression of the self thinking" (Alfred Kazin) or writing as learning and thinking--this paper examines the work of anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the light of that definition. Particular attention is…

A BIBLIOGRAPHIC LISTING WAS COMPILED IN CONNECTION WITH A RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE SYNTAX OF CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE. THE DOCUMENT WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE AN EXHAUSTIVE INVENTORY OF CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN LITERATURE. SUBJECTS INCLUDED ARE FICTION AND NON-FICTION IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. ANNOTATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED. THE DATES…

The 24 pieces in this collection were written by the 22 Indiana high school students who were among the winners in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 1977 Achievement Awards competition. The selections include impromptu themes written on a topic assigned by NCTE, as well as samples of the studetns' essays, short stories, poems, and…

This survey of the Higher Education Panel (HEP) of the American Council on Education was conducted in response to the growing concern among many members of the academic community about the threat posed to our higher education system by a new commercial service for college students, the theme writing firm. These companies make available to…

Urges composition teachers to use Montaigne's essays as useful rhetorical models of the personal essay. (DD)

Reviews the major anthologies designed for freshman college composition courses, emphasizing the need to develop instructional materials under given theses. (RB)

Discusses existing methods of correcting essays in second language instruction and suggests an approach which takes into account both grammatical accuracy and difficulty of the topic set, permitting greater fairness and consistency of evaluation. (Author/BK)

The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…

It has long been established that self-assessment and goal-setting are regular features of the writing process of experienced writers. It has also been demonstrated that students develop more power and control over their writing when they are encouraged to become their own evaluators. Therefore, to help beginning writers think and act more like…

Sought to discover to what extent perceived quality differences in freshman expository writing could be measured quantitatively in terms of choice or method of utilization of syntactic structures. (DD)

Contributors review the advantages and disadvantages of essay contests. Considers typical essay topics, evaluation criteria, contests as motivational techniques, the validity of the essay form, and contests' impact on writers' audience awareness. (MM)

Urges teachers to write for publication, with their class's help, in order to demonstrate the writing process to students. (DD)

Article described an exploration in some depth of effective ways to bring reluctant students (and teachers) to a practical and relevant use of literature. (Editor/RK)

An analysis of the signification of rhetoric" in De Quincey's 1828 essay, Rhetoric" or Elements of Rhetoric"; a revision of a paper presented at the Rhetoric and Public Address debut program of the Speech Association of America (New York, December 1969). (Editor/RD)