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Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Kathryn R. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1988
Proposes that students' problems controlling the rhetorical features of school discourse (inventing a purpose within one's writing that will also serve the external purpose of impressing a grader) are as fundamental to the difficulties of basic writers in college writing as their syntactical and mechanical errors. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetorical Invention, Student Placement
