1. Writing styles cross-culturally: what shapes do they take?
Sandanona Conference
Anna Carissa Rozzo
May 2009

2. What does a hamburger and Aristotle have in common?
Pink Panther

3. Anglo-American Essay In

4. Aristotelian Argumentation
A “Western” value?
Classical Rhetoric- Western countries particularly N. American, presence of Aristotelian rhetoric in today’s composition (Connor 1996)
Hinkel
Anglo-American reader- Aristotelian proofs ( Kachru)

5. Other Perspectives Kaplan Contrastive Rhetoric
ethno/linguicentricity (Péry-Woodley (1990)
Testimonies

6. More Perspectives Chinese Korean German Finnish Hindi Japanese
Writer credibility
Digression as a rhetorical strategy
Sensory details over persuasion
Readers’ inference
Indirection
Thesis at the end

7. GROUP ACTIVITY -In groups, elect one member scribe
-Discuss your group’s topic
-Wait for further direction

8. My Experience in Morocco
“Wait, that’s not a good topic sentence”

9. A different take on the hamburger and “doodles”

10. A different take on the hamburger and “doodles”
Anglo-American Essay

11. Rationale for Activity
Experientially teaching an essay outline
Monocultural
Multicultural
Another professor’s take “Waitlisted!”

12. Voices
Volunteers to read some quotes?

13. Conclusion
Was my presentation Aristotelian?

14. Bibliography
Fox, Helen. (1994). Listening to the World Cultural Issues in Academic Writing. Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English.
Hinkel, Eli. Objectivity and credibility in L1 and L2 academic writing. In Hinkel, Eli,
Culture and Second Language Learning (90-108). New York: Cambridge University Press

15. Bibliography Cont’
Li, Xiao-Ming. (1996). “Good Writing” in cross cultural context. Albany, NY: SUNY Press
Connor, Ulla. (1996). Contrastive Rhetoric Cross-cultural aspects for second-language writing. New York: Cambridge University Press

16. Bibliography Cont’
Kachru, Yamuna. Culture, Context, and Writing. In Hinkel, Eli, Culture and Second
Language Learning (75-89). New York: Cambridge University Press