Introduction (9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.)

Relevance of CR Today I (9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.)

Ulla Connor, Indiana University at Indianapolis, USA
"An Agenda for Contrastive Rhetoric for the 21st Century"
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Dwight Atkinson, Temple University Japan
"Contrasting Rhetorics/Contrasting Cultures: Why CR Needs a Better Conceptualization of Culture"
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Relevance of CR Today II (10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)

Christine Pearson Casanave, Keio University, Japan
"Looking Beyond the Text: Questions for Contemplation in CR Research and Pedagogy"

Paul Kei Matsuda, University of New Hampshire, USA
"Changing Methodology in Contrastive Rhetoric Research"
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CR in Three EFL Situations (11:20 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

Virginia LoCastro, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
"CR in Mexico: Mexican Spanish Rhetorical Practices"

Aymerou Mbaye,  Indiana University at Indianapolis, USA
"Contrasting L1 and L2 School Writing Practices: Case Studies of Senegalese Students in Freshman Composition"

Toshiko Yoshimura, Hanazono University, Japan
"Teaching Argumentative Writing in a University Classroom in an EFL Setting in Japan"
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Atkinson, D. (1999). TESOL and culture. TESOL Quarterly, 33(4), 625-653.

Connor, U. (in press). New directions in contrastive rhetoric. TESOL Quarterly.

Kubota, R. (1997). A reevaluation of the uniqueness of Japanese written discourse: Implications for contrastive rhetoric. Written Communication, 14(4), 460-480.

Matsuda, P. K. (1997). Contrastive rhetoric in context: A dynamic model of L2 writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 6(1), 45-46.

McCagg, P. (1996). If you can lead a horse to water, you don’t have to make it drink: Some comments on reader and writer responsibilities. Multilingua, 15(3), 239-256.