IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Sep 2005

Genre Analysis in Technical Communication

M.J. Luzon

Abstract

An increasing body of research relies on genre to analyze academic and professional communication and to describe how members of a community use language. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of genre-based research in technical communication and to describe the different approaches to genre and to genre teaching. While some research focuses on the textual analysis of genres, other studies focus on the analysis of the social context and the ideology and structure of the discourse community that owns the genre, and on the role of genres as social rhetorical actions of the community. These two perspectives are also reflected in the teaching of genre in technical communication.

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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2005-09-01
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10.1109/tpc.2005.853937
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