Probing Rhetorical Structures of Advanced Learners’
Expository Prose: A Data-Based Approach
Logic, as the basis of rhetoric, always
affects the way ideas, words, and evidence are assembled into one coherent
structure. As rhetoric varies from culture to culture, it frequently
brings about awkwardness, inappropriateness as well as immaturity of an
expository prose if it does not meet the convention of the organizational
patterns and signals as expected by the readers having that rhetoric. A number
of scholars have highlighted the importance and insights of contrastive
rhetoric for the teaching of academic writing. This paper describes various rhetorical problems
encountered by dozens of advanced Indonesian learners of English taking an
academic writing class at AMINEF (American Indonesian Exchange Foundation) who
plan to study in the
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Marcellino, M. (2004, April). Probing
rhetorical structures of advanced learners’ expository prose: A data-based
approach. Paper
presented at the RELC International Seminar on Approaches to
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