Since its inception almost fifty years ago by the applied linguist Robert Kaplan, contrastive rhetoric has developed as an approach used to examine different discourse and rhetoric. It maintains that language and writing are cultural phenomena and that each language has rhetorical conventions unique to it. Despite its pedagogical intentions to raise teachers' and students' rhetorical awareness in foreign language writing, the major assumptions of contrastive rhetoric have been challenged which led recent research to move from the EAP study of student essays to the study of writing in many disciplines and genres with a focus on the construction of meaning in discourse across cultures. To distinguish between the previous static contrastive model and the recent advances that have been made, the term intercultural rhetoric has been suggested to refer to the new cross-cultural research orientations. This course offers intensive training in language analysis from a discourse-based perspective. The main premise of this approach is that raising students’ awareness of the textual/discoursal aspects of real language data is a stepping stone to a systematic intercultural discourse analysis and rhetoric (i.e. in this case English and Arabic discourse).