College Composition and Communication Dec 2019

Feeling It: Toward Style as Culturally Structured Intuition

Keith Rhodes

Abstract

A limited mixed-method study revealed that students could alter written style after direct style instruction, but the effect faded quickly. Instead, students reverted to culturally structured intuition to make conscious, contrary choices. Thus, direct instruction in precise forms of style should probably yield to methods that build culturally structured intuition.

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College Composition and Communication
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2019-12-01
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10.58680/ccc201930422
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