Dissertation Genre Change as a Result of Electronic Theses and Dissertation Programs

Autor/in	Pantelides, Kate
Titel	Dissertation Genre Change as a Result of Electronic Theses and Dissertation Programs
Quelle	In: Across the Disciplines, 12 (2015) 3 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-8244
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Doctoral Dissertations; Masters Theses; Electronic Publishing; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Affordances; Literary Genres; Interdisciplinary Approach; Ecology; Discourse Analysis; Persuasive Discourse; Criticism; Awards; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Elektronisches Publizieren; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Literarische Form; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Ökologie; Diskursanalyse; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Kritik; Award; Auszeichnung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	The increasing prevalence of mandatory Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) policies has ushered in rather dramatic dissertation genre change. The affordances of the medium offer expanded access and audience, availability of new compositional tools, and alternate formats, the implications of which are just beginning to appear in dissertations. Through genre analysis of 14 interdisciplinary, award-wining ETDs, I consider how the discursive opportunities offered by ETDs necessarily shift the "genre ecology" within which dissertations develop. Further, I catalogue emerging ETD convention and address tensions between emerging and "traditional" contexts. To provide context for this study, I examine the discourse that surrounds, constitutes, and creates dissertations, including vocal arguments against ETD policies, studies supporting ETD use, and dissertation awards discourse. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01