Genre in a Changing World

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions and educational settings. Genre in a Changing World,e...

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Other Authors: Bazerman, Charles (Editor), Bonini, Adair (Editor), Figueiredo, Débora (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] WAC Clearinghouse [2009]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo
  • Part 1: Advances in Genre Theories
  • Worlds of Genre - Metaphors of Genre, John M. Swales
  • From Speech Genres to Mediated Multimodal Genre Systems: Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and the Question of Writing, Paul Prior
  • To Describe Genres: Problems and Strategies, Maria Antónia Coutinho and Florencia Miranda
  • Relevance and Genre: Theoretical and Conceptual Interfaces, Fábio José Rauen
  • Part 2: Genre and the Professions
  • Accusation and Defense: The Ideational Metafunction of Language in the Genre Closing Argument, Cristiane Fuzer and Nina Célia Barros
  • The Sociohistorical Constitution of the Genre Legal Booklet: A Critical Approach, Leonardo Mozdzenski
  • Uptake and the Biomedical Subject, Kimberly K. Emmons
  • Stories of Becoming: A Study of Novice Engineers Learning Genres of Their Profession, Natasha Artemeva
  • The Dissertation as Multi-Genre: Many Readers, Many Readings, Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine
  • Part 3: Genre and Media
  • The Distinction Between News and Reportage in the Brazilian Journalistic Context: A Matter of Degree, Adair Bonini
  • The Organization and Functions of the Press Dossier: The Case of Media Discourse on the Environment in Portugal, Rui Ramos
  • Multi-semiotic Communication in an Australian Broadsheet: A New News Story Genre, Helen Caple
  • Narrative and Identity Formation: An Analysis of Media Personal Accounts from Patients of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo
  • Part 4: Genre in Teaching and Learning
  • Genre and Cognitive Development: Beyond Writing to Learn, Charles Bazerman
  • Bakhtin Circle's Speech Genres Theory: Tools for a Transdisciplinary Analysis of Utterances in Didactic Practices, Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo
  • The Role of Context in Academic Text Production and Writing Pedagogy, Désirée Motta-Roth
  • Teaching Critical Genre Awareness, Amy Devitt
  • Curricular Proposal of Santa Catarina State: Assessing the Route, Opening Paths, Maria Marta Furlanetto
  • Intertextual Analysis of Finnish EFL Textbooks: Genre Embedding as Recontextualization, Salla Lähdesmäki
  • Part 5: Genre in Writing Across the Curriculum
  • Exploring Notions of Genre in "Academic Literacies" and "Writing Across the Curriculum": Approaches Across Countries and Contexts , David R. Russell, Mary Lea Jan Parker, Brian Street, and Tiane Donahue
  • Genre and Disciplinary Work in French Didactics Research, Tiane Donahue
  • Negotiating Genre: Lecturer's Awareness in Genre Across the Curriculum Project at the University Level, Estela Inés Moyano
  • The Development of a Genre-Based Writing Course for Graduate Students in Two Fields, Solange Aranha
  • Written Genres in University Studies: Evidence from an Academic Corpus of Spanish in Four Disciplines, Giovanni Parodi
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