Rethinking the articulation between business and technical communication and writing in the disciplines: Useful avenues for teaching and research

DR Russell - Journal of Business and Technical …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
In a profound sense, the teaching of business and technical communication (BTC) is always
already the teaching of writing in the disciplines (WID). Yet the WID dimension of BTC is …

Building context: Using activity theory to teach about genre in multi-major professional communication courses

D Kain, E Wardle - Technical Communication Quarterly, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Instructors in multi-major professional communication courses are asked to teach students a
variety of workplace genres. However, teaching genres apart from their contexts may not …

[PDF][PDF] Identity, authority, and learning to write in new workplaces

E Wardle - Enculturation, 2004 - academia.edu
Despite the media's continued representation of communication as “utilitarian and
objective”(Bolin), and the acceptance of this view by much of the public and even by many …

[PDF][PDF] Genre, media, and communicating to learn in the disciplines: Vygotsky developmental theory and North American genre theory

D Russell, P Harms - 2010 - SciELO Chile
What is the relationship between medium and genre in learning and development? North
American genre theory suggests following Miller (1984, 1994) that genre is social action …

[图书][B] Contradiction, constraint, and re-mediation: An activity analysis of FYC motives

EA Wardle - 2003 - search.proquest.com
While compositionists have long grappled with what the first-year composition (FYC) course
is and can do, the literature has rarely focused directly on FYC motives, nor offered an …

[图书][B] The influence of an integrated course cluster on the communication skills, technical content knowledge, and problem-solving skills of upper-level college …

CCC Barnett - 2006 - search.proquest.com
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine if upper-level college
students who participated in AgPAQ, an integrated course cluster learning community …

[图书][B] Understanding teaching in a nonclassroom-based secondary California charter school: An activity theory perspective

JM Jackson - 2005 - search.proquest.com
This study investigated teacher practices working within an alternative US public school
operating under the guidelines of The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 from an activity …

Géneros, medios, y comunicación para aprender en las disciplinas: La teoría del desarrollo de Vygotsky y la teoría del género norteamericana

D Russell, P Harms - Revista signos, 2010 - SciELO Chile
What is the relationship between medium and genre in learning and development? North
American genre theory suggests following Miller (1984, 1994) that genre is social action …

[引用][C] A theme-based learning community linking composition and history: An activity/genre theory analysis

JT Fogarty - 2007 - ProQuest