Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers

by Andy Kirkpatrick, Zhichang Xu, Andy Kirkpatrick

Book Overview

In CHINESE RHETORIC AND WRITING: AN INTRODUCTION FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS, ANDY KIRKPATRICK and Zhichang Xu offer a response to the argument that Chinese students' academic writing in English is influenced by "culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate." Noting that this argument draws from "an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing," they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160235300X
• ISBN13: 9781602353008
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Parlor Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"