Rhetoric And Composition Paper
Although important steps have been made in recent years to internationalize the discipline of rhetoric and composition (see, for example, recent edited volumes by Horner & Kopelson, 2014 and Martins, 2015), the systematic study of best practices in the teaching of writing at the postsecondary level remains, unfortunately, a largely American pursuit. One of many areas around the world where knowledge of the discipline of rhetoric and composition is limited is the Anglophone Caribbean. This is despite a decades-long tradition of teaching American-style college composition classes at Caribbean postsecondary institutions. Those studies that have analyzed the specific issues with teaching college composition to Anglophone Caribbean students — students