Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs

Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

On the Importance of Linguistics for Teaching Writing

From English Journal
(Chongwon Park and I are working on a series of articles about the importance of linguistics for the teaching of writing.  Bits and pieces will be collected here.)

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Since the 1960s, I think, the "fashionable portions" of linguistic theory important to the teaching of writing have been the sociolinguistic dimensions of the discipline.  Undervalued, today, is the cognitive agenda.

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