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Dr. Xinghua Liu received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, UK and completed his post-doctorate training in writing research at Arizona State University, USA. He has extensive teaching and research experience in second language writing and is a published researcher in this area. Dr. Anne McCabe obtained her Ph.D. in Language Studies at Aston University, UK, and has taught first-year University writing in English at Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus for over twenty-five years. She has published widely in areas related to academic writing, education, and the media, using a variety of discourse analytical tools. Chapter 1 Contrastive Rhetoric1.1 Introduction and Origins 1.2 Criticisms of Early Contrastive Rhetoric1.3 Expansion of Contrastive Rhetoric 1.4 Research Considerations 1.5 Contrastive Chinese-English studies of voice and critical stance 1.6 SFL as a useful framework for contrastive rhetoric research 1.7 Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing: A Contrastive Perspective Chapter 2 Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance2.1 Audience Interaction and Student Writing 2.2 Voice, Audience and Student Writing 2.3 Voice, Stance and Evaluation Chapter 3 Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing3.1 Evaluation in Interaction 3.2 The Appraisal Framework 3.3 Relevant studies on Appraisal 3.4 Specific enquiry of the study Chapter 4 A Study of Attitude in Student Writing4.1 Contrastive Rhetoric Research with an Expanded Framework and Improved Design 4.2 University Contexts for the Study 4.3 Written Data Collection 4.4 Attitudinal analysis 4.5 Summary Chapter 5 Appraisal Analysis5.1 A cross-linguistic comparison between English writing and Chinese writing: EE and CC 5.2 A cross-cultural comparison between EE and CEE 5.3 A within-language comparison between CC and CEC 5.4 A within-subject comparison between CEE and CEC 5.5 Summary Chapter 6 Conclusions and ImplicationsReferencesAppendices
