Bruce Herzberg’s research while affiliated with Bentley University and other places

... An underlying assumption behind this early conception of voice was that writer's identity existed in the material reality external to discourse, and that identity was being projected through discourse. In this conception of writer identity as projected self, honesty, or the accuracy of self-representation, was an important concern, and some writing teachers and researchers emphasized the presence of authentic self as the sine qua non of good writing (Coles & Vopat, 1985). In this view, identity can be discussed and assessed in terms of its presence or absence, as well as the authenticity of self-representation. ...

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Identity in Written Discourse

... The mid-16th century saw the rise of vernacular rhetoric; those written in English rather than in the Classical languages; adoption of works in English was slow, however, due to the strong orientation toward Latin and Greek. One of the concerns of the age was to find a suitable style for the discussion of scientific topics, which needed above all a clear exposition of facts and arguments, rather than the ornate style favoured at the time (Bizzell, & Herzberg, 2000). Moreover, Europe was split by wars, as well as by the Protestant Reformation, which takes the year 1517 as its traditional starting date. ...

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Kurdish Studies A Historical Study of the Rhetoric and Persuasion

... As a relatively established support mechanism it is perhaps surprising that the handout has received little attention in the literature to date. Although the research assignment itself has long been critiqued (Larson 1982;Schwegler and Shamoon 1982;Bizzell and Herzberg 1987;Fister 1992;Nelson 1990;1994) and, more recently, redesigned (Blackwell-Starnes 2011; Deitering and Gronemyer 2011;Sinkinson and Hicks 2013;Mihailidis and Cohen 2013;Hicks and Howkins 2015), the handout has been largely ignored in research literature. PIL provides one of the few empirical studies on the topic. ...

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Student perspectives: Redesigning a research assignment handout through the academic literacies model