SECOND LANGUAGE WRITERS' TEXT: LINGUISTIC AND RHETORICAL FEATURES

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SECOND LANGUAGE WRITERS' TEXT: LINGUISTIC AND RHETORICAL FEATURES. Eli Hinkel. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. Pp. v + 370. $89.95 cloth, $45.00 paper.

This volume provides one of the most comprehensive analyses of academic writing in a second language (L2). Hinkel documents extensive research in the linguistic and rhetorical features found in L2 writing, weaving into her discussion a review of the research in first language (L1) writing. But this is not a book about contrastive rhetoric. Hinkel's purpose is to map out the particular features that constitute L2 academic writing through a review of the literature and her own empirical study, which dominates this book.