Mapping Rhetorical Knowledge in Advanced Academic Writers: The Affordances of a Transactional Framework to Disciplinary Communication

Autor/in	Rabbi, Shakil
Titel	Mapping Rhetorical Knowledge in Advanced Academic Writers: The Affordances of a Transactional Framework to Disciplinary Communication
Quelle	In: Across the Disciplines, 17 (2020) 3-4, S.69-91 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-8244
Schlagwörter	Rhetoric; Academic Language; Literary Genres; Content Area Writing; Fundamental Concepts; Affordances; Models; Doctoral Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rhetorik; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Literarische Form; Schriftliche Übung; Grundlagenplan; Konzept; Analogiemodell; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin
Abstract	Research on written communication shows that rhetorical knowledge is a key domain of disciplinary writing expertise (Gere et. al. 2019). Much of the recent work in this area has focused on the social dimensions of learning this knowledge. This article builds on these conversations with a presentation of two "advanced academic writers" (Tardy, 2009) and interpreting how they conceptualize rhetorical knowledge through an understanding of academic communication as transaction and symbolic exchange (Britton & Pradl, 1982). I make a case for the value of a transactional framework for interpreting writers' performance of genre situations. I also show that this framework can provide a "metagenre" (Carter, 2007), a way of doing writing in the discipline, and a "threshold concept" (Adler-Kassner & Wardle, 2015), a way of thinking about writing tasks that shapes writers' experiences of and learning with them. The two case studies provide an argument for the efficacy of rhetorical knowledge in fostering disciplinary genres when it is framed as understanding situations of communication. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01