f m s R a a a a n a n o For 18 of the past 20 years, I have sat in the audience and listened to every American Venous Forum (AVF) Presidential Address. The majority of the addresses were well written, thoughtful, inspiring, and captivating. As a member sitting in the audience, I listened intently, hoping to glean some pearls of wisdom from the men and women who had the privilege of being presid...

Persian  learners  of  English  often  avoid  attending  to  audience  considerations,  which  brings them  lower  scores.  The  present  study  was  conducted  in  a  major  university  in  Iran  to  help Persian learners develop a sense of audience awareness in writing. Thirty five Persian students of English  were trained  with a focus on process-oriented instruction. The intended task was a...

There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumentation in logic. They incorporate a formal representation of individual arguments and techniques for comparing conflicting arguments. An example is the framework by Besnard and Hunter that is based on classical logic and in which an argument (obtained from a knowledgebase) is a pair where the first item is a minimal consistent set of formula...

In this essay, I study MySpace and Facebook pages, as well as interviews with the university students who created them, in order to address how online literacy practices of contemporary convergence culture both use and are filtered through popular culture. Though their answers to questions of intent, audience, and rhetorical choices varied, students shared a common reliance on popular culture c...