Rhetorical Analysis On Suresh Canagarajah

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Suresh Canagarajah is an associate professor in English at Baruch College of the City University of New York. In his biography, “the Fortunate Traveler: Shuttling between Communities and Literacies by Economy Classy’, he talks about his whole life experience of learning English as a second language and his achievement in that knowledge area. Suresh Canagarajah’s article was really effective, the inductive and deductive writing he has mentioned are two powerful writing styles. Also, in the reading, he points out his childhood literacy at school his essay always appricieted by teachers as a bilingual. The college literacy with he found out that his essay with powerful language is not appreciated by everyone. Joined the academic community with

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