The /r/ used by some speakers in the south-west of England, and in many
varieties of American English, is a retroflex sound.
see also place of articulation, manner of articulationretrospection n
see verbal reporting
retrospective syllabus n
see a priori syllabus
reversal error n
see speech errors
reversed subtitles n
see subtitles
reverse stress n
see stress shift
revising n
see composing processes
revision n
the practices in L2 composition classes in which students “look again” at
their writing holistically in order to improve such areas as organization,
focus, etc.
see consolidation
rewrite rule n
seebase component
rheme n
see functional sentence perspective
rhetoric n
the study of how effective writing achieves its goals. The term “rhetoric” in
this sense is common in North American college and university courses in
rhetoric or “rhetorical communication”, which typically focus on how to
express oneself correctly and effectively in relation to the topic of writing or
speech, the audience, and the purpose of communication.
In traditional grammar, rhetoric was the study of style through grammatical
and logical analysis. Cicero, the ancient Roman orator and writer, described
rhetoric as “the art or talent by which discourse is adapted to its end”.
rhetoric