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

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-31

  Sheehan, Richard Johnson ^a   Flood, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Case; Engineering; Genre; Interpretation; Pedagogy; Report

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

ENGINEERING GENRES; OPEN CASE ASSIGNMENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0033098386     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.749364     Document Type: Article

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