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Writing analytics has emerged as a sub-field of learning analytics, with applications including the provision of formative feedback to students in developing their writing capacities. Rhetorical markers in writing have become a key feature in this feedback, with a number of tools being developed across research and teaching contexts.
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Situating Our Rhetorical Practice [PDF]
As the writing consultants and Assistant Director have demonstrated, kairos is a core concept that we can use productively to situate and reflect on our rhetorical practice. The idea of “right timing,” the “opportune moment,” and the “embodiment of carpe
Taylor, Tim
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Creating ‘wellbeing societies’: moving from rhetoric to action
Several global challenges have emerged and coalesced in recent times, including climate change and environmental crises; growing health and social inequalities; geopolitical conflicts; and increasing rates of both communicable and noncommunicable and mental health diseases. The urgency and need for change has never been greater.
Faten Ben Abdelaziz +4 more
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Rhetorical structure and reader manipulation in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express [PDF]
This paper describes Agatha Christie’s use of rhetoric to convince readers of the ‘truth’ of her detective’s solution in The Murder on the Orient Express, and uses an adaptation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) designed for analyses of long extracts ...
Alexander, M.
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Rhetorical structures in academic research writing by non-native writers [PDF]
Writers of research articles are expected to present research information in a structured manner by following a certain rhetorical patterns determined by the discourse community.Failures to keep to the writing standard and rhetorical pattern are likely ...
Ab Rahim, Ina Suryani +4 more
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Tutoring Translingual Writers: The Logistics of Error and Ingenuity [PDF]
The writing center is perfectly positioned to take the lead in institutional responses to the exigencies of translingualism. Translingual writers—writers who move with variable facility between linguistic and rhetorical expression in two or more ...
Newman, Mendez Beatrice
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The virtues of reason and the problem of other minds: Reflections on argumentation in a new century [PDF]
From early modernity, philosophers have engaged in skeptical discussions concerning knowledge of the existence, state, and standing of other minds. The analogical move from self to other unfolds as controversy.
Goodnight, G. Thomas
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Generation 1.5 Writing Center Practice: Problems with Multilingualism and Possibilities via Hybridity [PDF]
In much writing center theory and practice, conversations about multilingual writers have tended to involve L2 writers. Often international students, these writers speak at least one language other than English, but they perhaps speak more than just one ...
Naydan, Liliana M.
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Workshops on Real World Writing Genres: Writing, Career, and the Trouble with Contemporary Genre Theory [PDF]
My article reports on an annual series of workshops I launched as director of my writing center. This ongoing initiative, titled Workshops on Real World Writing Genres, aims to introduce undergraduates to genres they will practice in their prospective ...
Plotnick, Jerry
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