TY - GEN
T1 - Optimizing a genre analysis framework to investigate engineering literature reviews
AU - Lenart, Joshua B.
AU - Berdanier, Catherine G.P.
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One of the most recent contributions to genre literature in the field of engineering specifically is conducted by Berdanier [23], who studies the rhetoric and argumentation patterns of engineering graduate students in applying for a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship. Her moves-steps framework modifies those proposed by genre scholars in composition and rhetoric, but clarifies rhetorical purposes common in engineering settings in regard to setting up a research problem and arguing for a proposed research plan. These facets of engineering writing are fundamentally different than the expected genre and argumentation structures of other disciplines (for example, most engineering literature does not require nor expect any sort of theoretical framework, instead relying on background mathematical theory). We posit that engineering-specific genre analysis frameworks are required to further study engineering writing.
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PY - 2017/8/21
Y1 - 2017/8/21
N2 - This brief paper chronicles the development and validation of a genre analysis framework as part of an ongoing research study that investigates how graduate engineering students compose literature reviews in an effort to enter into their disciplinary communities. The literature review in particular proves troublesome for graduate students in technical fields, as most engineering students have not been taught nor required to write a literature review until their master's thesis or dissertation proposal. The present research is timely and relevant, offering technical communication faculty strategies to demystify and better train engineers to communicate in academic settings.
AB - This brief paper chronicles the development and validation of a genre analysis framework as part of an ongoing research study that investigates how graduate engineering students compose literature reviews in an effort to enter into their disciplinary communities. The literature review in particular proves troublesome for graduate students in technical fields, as most engineering students have not been taught nor required to write a literature review until their master's thesis or dissertation proposal. The present research is timely and relevant, offering technical communication faculty strategies to demystify and better train engineers to communicate in academic settings.
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U2 - 10.1109/IPCC.2017.8013956
DO - 10.1109/IPCC.2017.8013956
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85030097841
T3 - IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
BT - 2017 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, ProComm 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, ProComm 2017
Y2 - 23 July 2017 through 26 July 2017
ER -