Yes, education is a national issue, but it is also a danger. When I look all these books about how to teach, I have the impression that children are being used as fodder for testing, that the aim is not to educate them, but to bring them up as if they were frogs or guinea pigs for psychologists. This is dreadful. Poor young people! What they have to go through because of these books! They are trained like performing animals. (Unamuno, 1993, p.42) There are two things I cannot stand: pedagogy and sociology. The former must be replaced by art and the latter by history. (Unamuno, 1993, p. 42)

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Preface - Sidney Greenbaum Introduction - Alan C Purves PART ONE: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Culture, Writing and the Curriculum - Judit Kadar-Fulop The Problem of Comparability of Writing Tasks - Anneli Vahapassi Developing a Rating Method for Stylistic Preference - R Elaine Degenhart and Sauli Takala A Cross-Cultural Pilot Study PART TWO: NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN WRITING STYLES Writers in Hindi and English - Yamuna Kachru Cultural Variation in Persuasive Student Writing - Ulla Connor and Janice Lauer Cultural Variation in Reflective Writing - Robert Bickner PART THREE: TRANSFER OF RHETORICAL PATTERNS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING The Second Language Learner and Cultural Transfer in Narration - Anna Soter Narrative Styles in the Writing of Thai and American Students - Chantanee Indrasuta Cultural Differences in Writing and Reasoning Skills - Sybil Carlson The Rating of Student Performance in Written Composition - Young Mok Park PART FOUR: SUMMING UP Contrastive Rhetoric and Second Language Learning - Robert B Kaplan Notes Toward a Theory of Contrastive Rhetoric

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