IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Mar 1999

Genre, rhetorical interpretation, and the open case: teaching the analytical report

R. Johnson Sheehan University of New Mexico ; A. Flood

Abstract

Analytical reports, being one of the most difficult genres to teach in a technical writing course, are best taught through the "open case" method. Open cases take advantage of the fact that students are already situated in a workplace environment, the college campus. Engineering students can use the genre to impose order on this chaotic environment, conducting various forms of research on engineering-related campus issues. A process for developing open case assignments is provided.

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published
1999-03-01
DOI
10.1109/47.749364
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rhetorical criticism genre theory writing pedagogy teacher development technical communication
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