Reviews for Listening to the world

The average rating for Listening to the world based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-08-11 00:00:00 Kim Geoffroy This book focuses on working with international students to help them with academic writing. A great deal of this book is Fox delving into detail (through narrative, my favorite way) about the huge distinctions between the U.S. culture that informs our academic discourse and other world cultures (especially that are more collectivist and high-context, both of which she defines in the book). Because of these culture clashes, anyone interested in working with international students (Writing Center people anyone?) or in contact zones/postcolonial studies should find this interesting. Moreover, this book puts U.S. academic discourse into the kind of perspective that allows us to resee and potentially change the values and ideologies behind our current forms of academic discourse, a perspective that I believe has much to offer those who are interested in alternative rhetorics and altdis. Note after teaching in Egypt for a month: this book really explained to me key cultural issues, especially the very different ideas about intellectual property and plagiarism. I've passed those ideas on to everyone I know here who struggles with those issues. Super helpful. Now if only I had the book!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-11-26 00:00:00 Jeffrie Webster hope it's as useful as it sounds. . .:)