“Writing in Electronic Environments”: A Concept and a Course for the Writing and Rhetoric Major
Abstract
In this essay I present the results of a national study of over 2,000 writing assignments from college courses across disciplines. Drawing on James Britton’s multidimensional discourse taxonomy and recent work in genre studies, I analyze the rhetorical features and genres of the assignments and consider the significance of my findings through the multiple lenses of writing-to-learn and writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Although my findings indicate limited purposes, audiences, and genres for the majority of the assignments, instructors teaching courses explicitly connected to a Writing Across the Curriculum program or initiative assigned the most writing in the most complex rhetorical situations and the most varied disciplinary genres.
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- College Composition and Communication
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- 2009-12-01
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- 10.58680/ccc20099491
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- Open Access
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modern rhetorical theory rhetorical criticism genre theory discourse analysis writing pedagogy writing across the curriculum teacher development
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