ENGL 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: New Rhetorics, Parsing, Sage Publications

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1400
• Professor: Mya Poe

Document Summary

An assessment of antecedent genre knowledge and genre competence: an illustrative. Performance on the reading task interested in students ability to distinguish a technical report passage from other text types: 14% incorrectly identified technical report. Discussion and implications: performance indicated almost all of them had developed sensitivity to different genres prior to the communication class, gap between students sensitivity in reading and instructors expectations about their prior genre knowledge. Where was it published: natasha artemeva and janna fox 2010, research conducted in late 90s, carleton. University canada (ottawa canada), sage publications, journal of business and. Why was that question important to them: how does antecedent knowledge in a course help or hinder/ influence them, and develop their genre competence. What data did they collect and how did they analyze it: assessment: 62 students, 5 pages, identify and write about the genre. Gave the completed assessments to 9 experienced instructors.