Teaching the IMRaD Genre: Sentence Combining and Pattern Practice Revisited

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Beteiligte: Wolfe, Joanna, Britt, Cynthia, Poe Alexander, Kara
In: Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 25, 2011, 2, S. 119-158
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 119-158
ISSN: 1050-6519
1552-4574
DOI: 10.1177/1050651910385785
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> The authors describe two pedagogical strategies—rhetorical sentence combining and rhetorical pattern practice—that blend once-popular teaching techniques with rhetorical decision making. A literature review identified studies that associated linguistic and rhetorical knowledge with success in engineering writing; this information was used to create exercises teaching technical communication students to write Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRaD) reports. Two pilot studies report promising results: Preliminary findings suggest that students who were taught this method wrote essays that were perceived as significantly higher in quality than those written by students in a control section. At the same time, however, the pilot studies point to some challenges and shortcomings of exercise-oriented pedagogies. </jats:p>