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Cloning human beings: An assessment of the ethical issues pro and con. An argument for non-adversarial argumentation: On the relevance of the Feminist critique of academic discourse to L2 writing pedagogy. The dialectical method: Its application to social theory. British Journal of Language Teaching 26(2). Chinese formal schema in ESL composition. It is also argued that the dialectical model, while subsuming earlier rhetorical models adopted for analyzing Chinese writing, may hold the key to studying Chinese differences from the English in written arguments.Īlptekin, Cem. A cultural explanation is attempted to account for the phenomenon. A significant number of Chinese ESL writing follow a similar dialectical pattern although not as frequently as their expert writers. A comparative analysis of 90 argumentative essays respectively written by expert Chinese and English writers, and advanced Chinese ESL learners reveals that while the English essays tend to adopt a polemical style that persuades by defeating opposing arguments, a significant proportion of the Chinese essays show a dialectical style which examines opposing positions without taking sides and yet rising above them to resolve conflicting issues.
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It examines whether there is a fundamental difference between Chinese and English rhetoric in their preferred method of argument, as suggested by instructional materials on how to argue effectively (Liu, Lu. This study investigates Chinese indirection in argumentative writing.
