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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Classrooms filled with glassy-eyed students provide an experiential base for Alice S. Horning s new comprehensive theory about basic writers.Horning explores the theory of writing acquisition in detail. Her examination of spoken and written language and redundancy give a theoretical base to her argument that academic discourse is a separate linguistic system characterized by particular psycholinguistic features. She proposes that basic writers learn to write as other learners master a second language because for them, academic written English is a whole new language.She explores the many connections to be found in second language acquisition research to the teaching and learning of writing and gives special attention to the interlanguage hypothesis, pidginization theory, and the Monitor theory. She also addresses the role of affective factors (feelings, attitudes, emotions, and motivation) in the success or failure of writing students.

1. GIVING INSTRUCTIONS How to Feel Comfortable at an American Dinner Party How To Make a Good Impression at a Job Interview How to Use a Copy Machine How to Get to Arlington National Cemetery From the White House 2. TELLING WHAT HAPPENED: OBJECTIVE REPORTING Ice Causes Accident Rain Causes Accident The First Manned Flight to the Moon An Historic Event Independence Day in Middleburg 3. ANALYZING BY CAUSE AND EFFECT Why Blake College is Popular Why Croft College is Unpopular Why Sandra Miller is Not Healthy Why Bob Adams (or Someone You Know) is Healthy The Causes of Famine 4. COMPARING AND CONTRASTING My Two Brothers Two Sisters Two Houses for Sale Two Items for Sale and Two Apartments for Rent Two Cities 5. CLASSIFYING Amount of Carbohydrates in Foods Amount of Protein in Foods Contact Sports Careers and Noncontact Sports The Uses of Cattle 6. DESCRIBING A MECHANISM OR A PROCESS A Television An AM/FM Radio The Human Respiratory System A System or Machine Earthquakes

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