Academic Jargon and Soul-Searching Drivel.

Corder, Jim W.

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ERIC Number: EJ425412

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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Academic Jargon and Soul-Searching Drivel.

Corder, Jim W.

Rhetoric Review, v9 n2 p314-26 Spr 1991

Argues that both academic writing (academic jargon to some) and personal writing (soul-searching drivel to others) in all their diversity, with whatever purity they can attain or with whatever impurity they must reveal, ought to be a part of composition teachers' knowledge and practice. (RS)

Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, Personal Narratives, Writing Assignments, Writing for Publication, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Teachers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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