Good Writing in Cross-Cultural Context

Good Writing in Cross-Cultural ContextThis dialogue between teachers of writing in China and America on what constitutes "good writing," reveals that standards are culturally situated. Writing comments on student papers is a time honored and widely accepted practice in writing classrooms in most countries. Teachers offer text specific advice to each student and communicate to the student writer, among other things, the criteria of good writing. A close look at the teacher's comments,

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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The impetus for these dynamic changes comes from the dialectical contradictions that inhere within our most basic conceptions of personhood

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Russon investigates the formation of personality through family and social experience

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