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Tachino, Tosh – Written Communication, 2012
Recent scholarship in genre studies has extended its focus from studying single genres to multiple genres, as well as how these genres interact with one another. This essay seeks to contribute to this growing scholarship by adding a new concept, "intermediary genre". That is, a genre that facilitates the "uptake" of a genre by…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literary Genres, Scholarship, Scientific Research
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Kennedy, Kerrie – Written Communication, 2006
This article examines the influence of genre and gender on comments written by 108 sixth-grade teachers in response to two narrative and two persuasive papers. There were significant genre differences. Process, conventions, artistic style, and format were the focus of significantly greater numbers of comments directed to narrative writing. In…
Descriptors: Ideology, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Grade 6
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Graves, Roger – Written Communication, 1993
Provides information about how Canadian universities organize writing instruction. Presents the results of a nationwide survey of Canadian universities concerning writing instructors, writing researchers, and the scope and range of instruction. (HB)
Descriptors: College English, English Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Gentil, Guillaume – Written Communication, 2005
This article examines the appropriation of academic biliteracy by three French-speaking students at an English-medium university in the Canadian province of Quebec. Drawing on Hornberger's continua model of biliteracy, Bourdieu's critical social theory, and philosophical hermeneutics, the author conceptualizes individual biliterate development as…
Descriptors: Social Theories, English, Bilingualism, Writing (Composition)