This volume charts the development of contrastive rhetoric (CR) over the past 30 years.Although CR has not attempted to identify developmental stages of L2 writers, it is essentiallythe study of transfer: the influence of L1 writing conventions and cultural and cognitivedimensions on L2 writing. Major strengths of this book are its critical review of the literature,concise definitions, and documentation of the progression of CR from narrow L2 text-basedanalyses to the inclusion of multiple approaches.