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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Workplace writing"”.
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The Effect Of An Explicit Genre-based Approach To Teaching Workplace Writing
… of an explicit genre-based approach to teaching writing for learners of English as a foreign language in a workplace, which is a branch of an American company that explores oil and gas in Angola. By drawing on the genre-based approaches developed by Swales (1990) and Martin (2012), the study …
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The workplace writing experiences of EAL (English as an Additional Language) professionals: five case studies
… the literature on English second language (L2) writing skills reveals a need for more research on the workplace writing experiences of L2 professionals employed in English as an Additional Language (EAL) contexts. Through a case study approach involving a semi-structured interview, a think-aloud …
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When the workplace is on campus: Learning to write for a university speech language clinic
<p>Much of the literature on academic and workplace writing focuses on the differences between these two writing arenas, leading Dias et al. to describe writing for school and work as "worlds apart." Using insights from activity system theory and rhetorical genre theory, this dissertation project …
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Network Rhetoric: A Network Ethnography of the Knowledge Work of System Builders in Child Care and Early Learning
… project situated at the intersection of workplace writing, network theory, rhetorical theory and the study of public discourses, this dissertation argues for how these areas of inquiry intersect productively so that we can better understand the effects of workplace writing on the social …
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Teaching Visual Literacy and Document Design in First-Year Composition
… graphics to convey information. As teachers of writing, we need to study and understand these visually enhanced texts, because they have become the standard for communication in our society. Beyond this, we should learn how to teach students about visual literacy and document design so that they …
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Rearticulating religious rhetoric: Literate activity and semiotic remediation in a progressive Christian church
… through the interplay between the professional writing practices of clergy and the vernacular community literacy practices of their membership, practices that are both richly multimodal and intertextual. The professional composing of clergy is semiotically complex across both the church’s …