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Publication details [#37340]

Ball, Arnetha F. 1992. Cultural preference and the expository writing of African-American adolescents. Written Communication 9 (4) : 501–532.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | language and culture | language use | speech community | writing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study argues that cultural preference for organizational patterns in expository discourse can impede or promote succes in literacy-related experiences, focusing on the preferred patterns of African-American adolescents in academic writing tasks.