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Karlsson, Anna-Malin; Nikolaidou, Zoe – Written Communication, 2016
This article reports on research addressing the role of incident reporting at the workplace as a textual representation of lean management techniques. It draws on text and discourse analysis as well as on ethnographic data, including interviews, recorded interaction, and observations, from two projects on workplace literacy in Sweden: a study in…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Ethnography, Writing Research, Caregivers
Leijten, Marielle; Van Waes, Luuk – Written Communication, 2013
Keystroke logging has become instrumental in identifying writing strategies and understanding cognitive processes. Recent technological advances have refined logging efficiency and analytical outputs. While keystroke logging allows for ecological data collection, it is often difficult to connect the fine grain of logging data to the underlying…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Cognitive Processes, Writing Strategies, Data Collection
Baaijen, Veerle M.; Galbraith, David; de Glopper, Kees – Written Communication, 2012
Although keystroke logging promises to provide a valuable tool for writing research, it can often be difficult to relate logs to underlying processes. This article describes the procedures and measures that the authors developed to analyze a sample of 80 keystroke logs, with a view to achieving a better alignment between keystroke-logging measures…
Descriptors: Sentences, Text Structure, Factor Analysis, Classification
Lillis, Theresa – Written Communication, 2008
This article critically explores the value of ethnography for enhancing context-sensitive approaches to the study of academic writing. Drawing on data from two longitudinal studies, student writing in the United Kingdom and professional academic writing in Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, and Portugal, the author illustrates the different contributions…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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Kubota, Ryuko – Written Communication, 1997
Takes issue with standard characterizations of Japanese expository prose styles on the grounds that they view language and culture as exotic and static. Draws on multiple interpretations of ki-sho-ten-ketsu (classical rhetoric) offered by composition specialists in Japan. Suggests that researchers and writing teachers should be wary of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Japanese Culture
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Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise – Written Communication, 1989
Relates problems of law text comprehensibility to the legislative writing process. Describes the drafting of three pieces of Swedish consumer legislation at different stages. Summarizes and analyzes the results in relation to rhetorical and sociolinguistic theories of writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Laws, Legislation
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Kalman, Judy – Written Communication, 1996
Presents a detailed description of a scribe and his client in Mexico producing a letter through "joint composition," a term used to refer to letter-writing episodes involving two or more active participants. Shows how the participants negotiated their points of view and pooled their knowledge to produce a specific type of document. (PA)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing, Foreign Countries
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Crismore, Avon; And Others – Written Communication, 1993
Investigates the cultural and gender variations in the use of metadiscourse among U.S. and Finnish university students. Describes and analyzes the findings. Provides evidence for the universality of metadiscourse use and proposes more cross-cultural studies of metadiscourse. (HB)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies, Discourse Modes, Foreign Countries
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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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Tebeaux, Elizabeth – Written Communication, 1993
Examines technical books for women of the English renaissance as a microcosm for studying connections among the emergence of technical writing as a genre, the rise of literacy, expansion of knowledge and technology, and replacement of orality by textuality as a result of increasing knowledge. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Females, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Ongstad, Sigmund – Written Communication, 2002
The article consists of two parts: One introduces the concept of positioning as a framework for inspecting and relating major tendencies regarding research on writing; the other gives a historic outline of how research on writing in Norway first emerged. The triadic semiotics of Buhler, Bakhtin, Habermas, and Halliday are combined, and then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semiotics, Writing Research, Didacticism
Le, Elizabeth – Written Communication, 2003
The media, which includes editorials, have been shown to play an important role in the definition of priorities in public agenda. In the domain of international matters, the public relies heavily on the media, and editorials play an even greater role. This article examines how explicit mentions of external sources of information function in the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Information Sources, Foreign Countries