Key Concepts in Rhetorical Genre Studies: An Overview
Natasha Artemeva
- Vol. 20, Iss: 1, pp 3-38
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The article was published on 2004-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Genre studies & Rhetorical question.read more
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Multilingual re-instantiation: Genre pedagogy in Indonesian classrooms
TL;DR: Acknowledgements and acknowledgements are given in this paper, where a table of contents and a list of figures and texts are presented. But they do not specify symbols and abbreviations.
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Co-management in healthcare: negotiating professional boundaries
TL;DR: This article investigated discursive practices associated with the co-management of patients between healthcare providers and found that optometrists and ophthalmologists used epistemic, deontic, phatic, and subjective resources to create dialogical space for each other to participate in some future relationship.
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Mapping the Genres of Healthcare Information Work: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Interactions Between Oral, Paper, and Electronic Forms of Communication
Abstract: I hereby declare that I am sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. iii ABSTRACT Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) are becoming standard tools in healthcare, lauded for improving patient access and outcomes. However, the healthcare professionals who work with, around, and despite these technologies in their daily practices often regard EPRs as troublesome. In order to investigate how EPRs can prompt such opposing opinions, this project examines the EPR as a collection of communication genres set in complex contexts. In this project, I investigate an EPR as it was used on the Nephrology ward at a large, Canadian, urban, paediatric teaching hospital. In this setting, this study investigates EPR-use in relation to the following aspects of context: (a) the visual rhetoric of the EPR's user-interface design; (b) the varied social contexts in which the EPR was used, including a diversity of professional collaborators who had varying levels of professional experience; (c) the span of social actions involved in EPR use; and (d) the other genres used in coordination with the EPR. This qualitative study was conducted in two simultaneous stages, over the course of 8 months. Stage one consisted of a visual rhetorical analysis of a set of genres (including the EPR) employed by participants during a specific work activity. Stage two involved an elaborated, qualitative case study consisting of non-participant observations and semi-structured interviews. Stage two used a constructivist grounded theory methodology. A combination of theoretical perspectives – Visual Rhetoric, Rhetorical Genre Studies, Activity Theory, and Actor-Network Theory – supported the analysis of study data. This research reveals that participants routinely transformed EPR-based information into paper documents when the EPR's visual designs did not support the professional goals and activities of the participants. Results indicate that healthcare professionals work around EPR-based patient information when that genre's visual organization is incompatible with professional activities. This study suggests that visual rhetorical analysis, complemented with observation and interview data, can provide useful insights into a genre's social actions. This research also examines the effects of such EPR-to-paper genre transformations. Although at one level of analysis, the EPR-to-paper-genre transformation may be considered inefficient for participants and so should be automated, at another level of analysis, the same transformation activity can be seen as beneficially …
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Using a Transfer-Focused Writing Pedagogy to Improve Undergraduates’ Lab Report Writing in Gateway Engineering Laboratory Courses
Dave Kim,Wendy Michelle Olson +1 more
TL;DR: Data collected via pre- and post-implementation writing artifacts show that a rhetorical approach to teaching lab reports helped students better understand the expectations of the lab report as a discipline-specific genre, and it developed students’ understanding of the rhetorical features of engineering writing.
Metaphors and gestures for abstract concepts in academic english writing
TL;DR: The roles of gestures in reflecting the abstract mental representation of academic writing were confirmed, including the linearity, container, building, journey metaphors and others.
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