TY - JOUR T1 - Explicitly Teaching Five Technical Genres to English First-Language Adults in a Multi-Major Technical Writing Course JF - Journal of Writing Research Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ryan K Boettger KW - explicit teaching KW - genre theory KW - quasi-experiment KW - technical communication KW - technical writing AB -

In this paper, I report the effects of explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language students enrolled in a multi-major technical writing course. Previous experimental research has demonstrated the efficacy of explicitly teaching academic writing to English first-language adults, but no comparable study on technical writing exists. I used a mixed-method approach to examine these effects, including a control-group quasi-experimental design and a qualitative analysis to more fully describe the 534 texts produced by 316 student writers. Results indicated the genre participants constructed texts demonstrating a significantly greater awareness to audience, purpose, structure, design, style, and editing than participants taught through more traditional approaches. Within the technical genres, participants demonstrated greater awareness to audience, purpose, and editing in the job materials text type than with correspondence or procedures text types.

VL - 6 SP - 29-59 UR - http://www.jowr.org/articles/vol6_1/JoWR_2014_vol6_nr1_Boettger.pdf CP - 1 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mittell, Jason KW - Altman KW - Foucault KW - genre KW - historiography KW - industry KW - media studies KW - parody KW - quiz show KW - television PB - Routledge CY - New York SN - 0-415-96903-4 N1 - + ER -