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Publication Date: 1990
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Discourse Matrix: A Practical Tool for ESL Writing Teachers.
Mackie, Ardiss; Bullock, Chris
TESL Canada Journal, v8 n1 p67-76 Nov 1990
Demonstrates how a technique involving contrastive rhetoric can help writing teachers and their students uncover and improve the overall rhetorical patterns in student writing. In addition, the use of a matrix that locates rhetorical patterns not followed in typical English patterns is described. (11 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Improvement, Language Patterns, Language Teachers, Matrices, Rhetoric, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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