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Beteiligte: Yu, Han, Monas, Natalie
In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 50, 2020, 1, S. 35-55
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 35-55
ISSN: 0047-2816
1541-3780
DOI: 10.1177/0047281618812441
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
Inhaltsangabe

<jats:p>Police officers do a significant amount of high-stake writing in police reports, but report writing is given little attention in policy academies, and prevailing guidelines treat the task as a mechanical process of recording facts. As a result, officers are ill-prepared for this essential and inherently complex task. In this study, we interviewed officers to study what makes for a good police report. Our findings reveal that police reports are goal-directed genre actions. This understanding peers through the positivist emphasis on factual details to emphasize the social function of police reports in the criminal justice system.</jats:p>