Awareness versus production: Probing students' antecedent genre knowledge

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 476-515

  Artemeva, Natasha ^a   Fox, Janna ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

antecedent genre; diagnostic assessment; disciplinary genre; engineering communication; genre awareness; genre competence; New Rhetoric genre theory; prior genre knowledge; rhetorical genre studies; targeted instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956638409     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651910371302     Document Type: Article

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