Swearingen, C. Jan2019-10-112019-10-1119981998https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/32708Based on cross-cultural studies of Euro-American and Chinese rhetoric, of national identity, and of literacy, my dissertation analyzes politics and conflicts in composition caused by multi-national identities and discourses. It investigates why national identity prescribes foreign students' rhetorical reasoning and how national values affect process-writing instruction to these students. Analyses of the academic literacy acquisition process and examples selected from composition classes provide evidence for the argument that conflicts in composition may be a result of the convergence of nationalisms: a rhetoric of being predetermines the rhetoric of teaching and writing.iv, 239 leavesFormat: PrintengEnglish language--Rhetoric--Study and teachingChinese language--Rhetoric--Study and teachingNationalismIntercultural communicationLiteracyTextMain Stacks: AS38 .W92 (Regular Loan)Special Collections: AS38 .W92 (Non-Circulating)