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A STUDY OF CONCLUSIONS IN EXPOSITORY...

CURTIS, CATHERINE ANN.

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A STUDY OF CONCLUSIONS IN EXPOSITORY PROSE: PROFESSIONAL WRITERS VERSUS TEXTBOOK CONVENTIONS.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A STUDY OF CONCLUSIONS IN EXPOSITORY PROSE: PROFESSIONAL WRITERS VERSUS TEXTBOOK CONVENTIONS./
Author:	CURTIS, CATHERINE ANN.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-12, Section: A, page: 3710.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International46-12A.
Subject:	Language, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8602986

A STUDY OF CONCLUSIONS IN EXPOSITORY PROSE: PROFESSIONAL WRITERS VERSUS TEXTBOOK CONVENTIONS.
CURTIS, CATHERINE ANN.

A STUDY OF CONCLUSIONS IN EXPOSITORY PROSE: PROFESSIONAL WRITERS VERSUS TEXTBOOK CONVENTIONS. - 239 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-12, Section: A, page: 3710.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1985.

This study attempts to determine the current state of theoretical knowledge concerning conclusions in expository prose and to ascertain the degree to which textbook approaches to the teaching of conclusions reflect the actual practices of professional writers.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Language, Modern.

A STUDY OF CONCLUSIONS IN EXPOSITORY PROSE: PROFESSIONAL WRITERS VERSUS TEXTBOOK CONVENTIONS.
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520 $a This study attempts to determine the current state of theoretical knowledge concerning conclusions in expository prose and to ascertain the degree to which textbook approaches to the teaching of conclusions reflect the actual practices of professional writers.
520 $a What began as a detailed history of endings became a discovery of their neglect and a realization that ideas about closure have not changed much since the classical period. Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian viewed conclusions in terms of forensic or judicial rhetoric. Throughout the Byzantine Period, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and even during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, scholars chose to rely on the ancients for their thoughts about the proper ways to conclude discourse.
520 $a Although contemporary theory has thus far failed to provide a coherent or complete alternative to the classical tradition in regard to endings, this study extrapolates four general attitudes--rhetorical, linguistic, literary, and logical--that are inherent in twentieth-century thinking. But the amount of research that has been done on conclusions in expository prose is negligible.
520 $a Having established the twentieth-century theoretical neglect of conclusions, the study surveys current freshman composition textbooks for advice about endings. Rhetorics, it was discovered, offer classroom folklore, anecdotal and subjective advice, misleading tautological assertions, and reductive versions of rules inherited from Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian. Most of the texts present only product-based instruction when dealing with closure, and many even abdicate the responsibility to teach it at all.
520 $a The study then investigates the concluding practices of professional writers. The conclusion strategies advocated by textbooks, if present in published prose, occur in far different frequencies than the rhetorics would suggest. Professional authors compose endings that incorporate several conclusion strategies at once, that consist of any number of sentences or paragraphs, and that differ dramatically from one type of writing to another.
520 $a This study finds an oversimplification of, and a disregard for, endings in both theory and textbooks. Conclusions have been treated in the past as the poor relation of the introduction. They have no real theory of their own, and we have no definitive picture of the variables affecting them.
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