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Flores-Ferrés, Magdalena; van Weijen, Daphne; Osorio-Olave, Gabriela; Palacios-Bianchi, Magdalena; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Written Communication, 2024
The Chilean curriculum for writing education includes five paradigms: "cultural," "macro-linguistic," "micro-linguistic," "procedural," and "communicative." The implementation of such a poly-paradigmatic curriculum can occur in multiple ways. Therefore, we analyzed classroom practices with two…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
DeJeu, Emily Barrow – Written Communication, 2023
Despite students' growing interest in entrepreneurship education (EE), the small body of research exploring rhetorical strategies for proposing new business ventures has focused only on the argument strategies that startup entrepreneurs use when delivering oral pitches to investors. This study, by contrast, explores the "topoi," or lines…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Entrepreneurship, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric
Banting, Sarah – Written Communication, 2023
This article examines the power of special topoi to characterize the discourse of literary criticism, and through emphasis on rhetorical action, it sheds light on the limitations of topos analysis for characterizing research articles in disciplinary discourse more generally. Using an analytical approach drawn both from studies of topoi in…
Descriptors: Humanism, Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis
Zhang, Yan; Hyland, Ken – Written Communication, 2022
The process of responding to supervisory feedback requires student writers to position themselves toward both the provider and content of that feedback, indicating their stance in the interaction and their evolving disciplinary competence. How positionings are discursively shaped, developed, and enacted to influence thesis revisions, however, has…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Supervision, Writing (Composition)
Ware, Ryan – Written Communication, 2022
Scholarship on trajectories of becoming with literate activities is of growing interest in Writing Studies, particularly in accounts of writing grounded in cultural-historical and dialogic approaches, and in lifespan accounts of writing. The research reported here contributes to those conversations by tracing trajectories of becoming that are…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing (Composition), Semiotics, Discourse Analysis
Swarts, Jason – Written Communication, 2022
Metadiscourse guides how readers interact with a text and process the information they find. Because texts differ in purpose and audience, so do patterns of metadiscourse use. This research examines the patterns of metadiscourse use in topic-based writing, developed following a structured authoring method. The resulting writing is modular,…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Information Sources, Reader Text Relationship, Writing Processes
Fang, Zhihui; Gresser, Valerie; Cao, Peijuan; Zhang, Huibin – Written Communication, 2022
Factual writing is a key macrogenre of American K-12 schooling that is also valued in workplace and society. This study examined the genre and register features of two subgenres of factual writing--biography and report--composed by 48 sixth-grade students in a curriculum unit on scientists and science-related careers aimed at developing students'…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Biographies, Reports, Writing (Composition)
Graham, S. Scott – Written Communication, 2021
This article offers a longitudinal computational-rhetorical analysis of biomedical writing on opioids. Using a corpus of 1,467 articles and essays published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" and the "Journal of the American Medical Association" between 1959 and May 2019, this study evaluates diachronic shifts in (a) the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Epidemiology, Medical Research
Cloud, Doug – Written Communication, 2017
"Coming out" is a powerful way for individuals to disclose, constitute, and perform membership in stigmatized identity categories. The practice has now spread far beyond its LGBTQ origins. In this essay, I examine how atheists and other secularists have taken up and adapted coming out discourse to meet their situational and rhetorical…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language
Gruber, David R. – Written Communication, 2017
Neuro-realism is a widely cited concept describing a textual phenomenon in popular science news wherein brain research uncritically validates or invalidates the "realness" of particular beliefs or practices. Currently, no research on neuro-realism examines the variable rhetorical roles of such statements, that is, how they support…
Descriptors: Brain, Neurosciences, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
Little, Megan Dodd – Written Communication, 2017
Delivery has often been treated as an afterthought of the "real work" of writing. This article demonstrates how writers in some contexts must think very carefully about delivery from the very beginning of their process. Tracking collaborative writers' talk, this article demonstrates how a group of writers works to anticipate delivery by…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Homosexuality, Fringe Benefits, Spouses
Szymanski, Erika Amethyst – Written Communication, 2016
Even as deficit model science communication falls out of favor, few studies question how written science communication constructs relationships between science and industry. Here, I investigate how textual microprocesses relate scientific research to industry practice in the Washington State wine industry, helping (or hindering) winemakers and…
Descriptors: Industry, Written Language, Science and Society, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Davila, Bethany – Written Communication, 2016
Although standard language ideologies have been well researched and theorized, the practices that lead to the reproduction and enactment of these ideologies deserve attention. Specifically, there remains a need to study language that both reveals reliance on standard language ideologies and perpetuates these ideologies within the field of writing…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, English, Language Usage, Ideology
Imbrenda, Jon-Philip – Written Communication, 2016
Based on Vygotsky's theory of the interplay of the tool and sign functions of language, this study presents a textual analysis of a corpus of student-authored texts to illuminate aspects of development evidenced through the dialectical tension of tool and sign. Data were drawn from a series of reflective memos I authored during a seminar for new…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Semiotics, Student Development, Change
Ray, Brian – Written Communication, 2016
This article introduces the concept of stylization and illustrates its usefulness for studying online discourse by examining how writers have employed it in order to parody sexist products such as BIC Cristal for Her, using genderlect in order to introduce dissonance into and reframe patriarchal discourse. A corpus analysis of 671 reviews, written…
Descriptors: Social Action, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Gender Bias