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Sandberg, Kate – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2001
Argues that the college reading and learning discourse community should enlarge its support and perspective by listening to and learning from other academic communities. Explains why college composition is the perfect place to start; examines its history, associations and professional journals; discusses genre theory as an example of composition's…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes, Higher Education
Hartley, Peter – Technical Writing Teacher, 1991
Contrasts the presentational mode of industrial writing--its strategies and techniques--with the reflective mode of traditional academic essay writing. Details industrial writing techniques and the organizational reasons for such techniques. (SR)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes, Postsecondary Education
Batie, Ralph – 1992
Beliefs about distinct differences between expressive and academic discourse unnecessarily complicate the teaching of writing. A composition pedagogy which fails to attend to the complications arising from the rhetorical aspect of language leads to the promotion of reasoning as separable from context. Reasoning then becomes a skill to be learned…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College English, Critical Thinking, Discourse Communities
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Kelly-Kleese, Christine – Community College Review, 2001
Suggests that it is appropriate to view the community college as a discourse community in its own right, and as a part of the larger discourse community of higher education. Argues that this shift in judgment might increase perceptions of community college competence, thus moving them into positions of legitimate power. (Contains 14 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Community Colleges, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Hicks, Jennifer – 1990
At Massachusetts Bay Community College a course was designed to create a transition from the process-based basic writing course to the traditional required freshman English course. WTG 100 was designed as an inquiry into academic writing, where students would learn about the various discourse conventions and expectations they would encounter as…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Course Content, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development
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Bartels, Nat – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2003
This study looks at language teachers' and language researchers' expectations and evaluations of two kinds of journal articles, either researcher-oriented or teacher-oriented. The results show that teachers and academics use different ways of validating information in journal articles and use the information contained in them in distinctly…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Language Teachers, Researchers, Periodicals