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Download full textBrett, Peter; Thomas, Damon – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
This paper explores persuasive writing and what more might be done to help equip young people with the written literacy tools to be effective participants in civic activism. Firstly, we argue from an Australian (and Tasmanian) context that there may be merit in teachers and students re-visiting some of the advice from classical rhetoric around the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Advocacy, Literacy
Peer reviewedWalshe, R. D. – College English, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Students, English Instruction, Grammar, Program Evaluation
Kirkpatrick, Andy – Open Letter, 1995
Focuses on how people from different cultures organize and sequence texts in different ways and how students write essays in a second language that follow the rhetorical patterns of their native language. The article describes the types of essays Chinese students must write for the university entrance exam in their home country. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Broer van Arragon, Kathleen – Online Submission, 2003
The focus of this study will be on the intersection of the following domains: Second Language Acquisition research on cohesion and coherence, discourse acquisition of young children, the effect of text form-focused instruction on student non-fiction writing and the impact of schema theory on student decision-making during the writing process.
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
Arsyad, Safnil – Online Submission, 2000
This study examined and compared the rhetorical structure of argumentative texts written by three groups of university students: 1) twenty Indonesian texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.I.); 2) ten English texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.E.); 3) ten English texts written by English native speakers (A.E.). Following the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Indonesian, Cultural Differences
Golebiowski, Zofia, Ed. – 1997
This selection of papers from the First Conference on Tertiary Literacy, which examined the role of literacy as a foundation for knowledge acquisition and dissemination that influences the academic success of tertiary students, presents a number of case studies of policy and practice in Australian universities. Keynote addresses included:…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Case Studies, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Golebiowski, Zofia, Ed.; Borland, Helen, Ed. – 1997
These selected papers from the First Conference on Tertiary Literacy focus on communication across differences of culture and discipline in Australian universities. Many of the papers have resulted from cooperation between applied linguists and specialist lecturers and describe cooperative models of literacy education based on interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Discourse, Allied Health Occupations Education, Communication Skills
