Embodied Genres, Typified Performances, and the Engineering Design Process

IF 1.9 1区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Written Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI:10.1177/07410883211031508

Scott Weedon, T. Fountain

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Using rhetorical genre theory, the authors theorize the engineering design process as a type of embodied genre enacted through typified performances of bodies engaged with discourses, texts, and objects in genre-rich spaces of design activity. The authors illustrate this through an analysis of ethnographic data from an engineering design course to show how a genred repertoire of embodied routines is demonstrated for students and later taken up as part of their design work. A greater appreciation of the interconnection between genre and design as well as the role of typification in producing embodied genres can potentially transform how writing studies conceives of and teaches both design processes and genres in technical and professional communication settings.

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体现的流派，典型的表演，和工程设计过程

运用修辞体裁理论，作者将工程设计过程理论化为一种具体的体裁，这种体裁是通过与话语、文本和物体相关的身体在体裁丰富的设计活动空间中的典型表现而产生的。作者通过分析工程设计课程中的人种学数据来说明这一点，以展示如何为学生展示一系列具体的程序，并随后将其作为设计工作的一部分。更深入地理解流派和设计之间的相互联系，以及典型化在产生具体流派中的作用，可能会改变写作研究在技术和专业交流环境中对设计过程和流派的构思和教学方式。

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来源期刊

Written Communication COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

15.80%

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期刊介绍： Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric. Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains.