Applying Rhetorical Genre Studies to a Stand-Alone Online Professional Writing Course
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Heather Brook Adams, Patricia Jenkins
Composition Forum Volume 31, ISSN 1522-7502
Abstract
This program profile explains and illustrates a pedagogical application of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) to a one-semester, upper-division online Professional Writing course. We explain our use of a heuristic, which we liken to "night-vision goggles," that enables students to systematically analyze field data that they gather from a participating worksite. We adapt an RGS methodology developed by Anthony Paré and Graham Smart to create our course heuristic and add a more explicit framework for investigating concepts of genre set, genre system, and activity system. We argue that our course design addresses transfer concerns by helping students develop meta-awareness, or specifically critical genre awareness, that they can then apply to future workplace writing situations.
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Adams, H.B. & Jenkins, P. (2015). Applying Rhetorical Genre Studies to a Stand-Alone Online Professional Writing Course. Composition Forum, 31,. Retrieved August 15, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/160800/.
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