Rhetorical strategies in chinese and english: A comparison of L1 composition textbooks

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 695-720

  Liao, Ming Tzu ^a   Chen, Ching Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Argumentative writing; Contrastive rhetoric; Rhetorical strategies for chinese; Rhetorical strategies for english; Textbook analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649140320     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2009.01050.x     Document Type: Article

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