Through practice, ESL participants will become familiar with English rhetoric and produce more standard paragraphs, essay examinations, and term papers.
Arabic speakers use both parallel themes, positive and negative.
Speakers of Romance languages and speakers of Slavic languages digress somewhat in different modes, but come back to the main idea at the end. All these nonnative speakers of English demonstrate difficulties when they have to modify or completely change their thought and rhetorical patterns to accommodate those of English speaking countries. By means of contrastive analysis of rhetoric, individual ESL participants will benefit significantly. Nonnative speakers' writings are not viewed favorably because of the difference in culture-specific rhetorical patterns. Through repeated practice, ESL participants will attain native or near-native fluency in English grammar and compostion as the native speakers of English.