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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Engineering writing"”.
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Understanding the rhetorical engineer
… development of the Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering Writing Enhancement Program and its definition of good engineering writing. Based on the work with the Mechanical Engineering Faculty and the Writing Enhancement Program, it was determined that good engineering writing is aware of its …
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Learning the language of academic engineering: Sociocognitive writing in graduate students
<p>Although engineering graduate programs rarely require academic writing courses, the indicators of merit in academic engineering, such as journal publications, successful grants, and doctoral milestones (e.g. theses, dissertations) are based in effective written argumentation and disciplinary …
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The acceptability of writing by second language engineering students : acculturating to a profession
Acculturation to a specialized field such as engineering is difficult for any novice, but especially so for writers who must achieve competency in the linguistic, cultural, academic, and professional norms of their second language. Technical reports written by both native English-speaking students …
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Engineering literacy: the practice of discipline
… administrators, and staff from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. In each chapter, my mappings extend through and beyond typical treatments of disciplinarity, retrieving data trajectories rendered invisible or irrelevant by current conceptual models and proposing …