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Ryan, Cynthia A. – 1996
Defining risk communication as the "interactive process of exchange of information and opinion among individuals, groups, and institutions,...involving multiple messages about the nature of risk," this Digest argues that risk communication has much to offer instructors of cultural studies composition who want to revive students' sense of…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Higher Education
Chappell, Virginia – 1990
The library can assist in grounding college student writing in reading and inquiry rather than in the mere retrieval of information Fundamental rhetorical goals can best by met by getting students into the library to ask questions, analyze sources, and evaluate claims so they can react to and incorporate the work of other writers into their own…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes, Expository Writing
Wang, Xiao – 2000
For an educator who teaches English in a multicultural setting, the best way to accommodate marked features of African-American vernacular English (AAVE) in black students' freshman essays is to preserve these features in teaching students narrative writings and guide African-American students to avoid these features in expository (academic)…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Black Dialects, Black Students, Class Activities