What Discourses Have in Common: Teaching the Transaction between Writer and Reader.

Kuriloff, Peshe C.

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Publication Date: 1996

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What Discourses Have in Common: Teaching the Transaction between Writer and Reader.

Kuriloff, Peshe C.

College Composition and Communication, v47 n4 p485-501 Dec 1996

Argues for the importance of distinct discourse communities, and the importance of a theory and pedagogy that recognizes common practices, common goals, and common values among discourse communities. Analyzes professional samples of scholarship and sample student papers. Suggests that the transaction between writer and reader lies at the heart of all discourses. (TB)

Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction

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Language: English

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