"Everything Is in the Lab Book": Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre Analysis of Symbolic Mediation in Medical Physics

Autor/inn/en	Doody, Sara; Artemeva, Natasha
Titel	"Everything Is in the Lab Book": Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre Analysis of Symbolic Mediation in Medical Physics
Quelle	In: Written Communication, 39 (2022) 1, S.3-43 (41 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-0883
DOI	10.1177/07410883211051634
Schlagwörter	Physics; Science Instruction; Medical Education; Learning Activities; Guidelines; Writing (Composition); Medical Research; Longitudinal Studies; Research Universities; Workbooks; Language Styles; Sociocultural Patterns; Radiation; Multiple Literacies; Laboratory Experiments; Therapy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Physik; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Medizinische Ausbildung; Lernaktivität; Richtlinien; Schreibübung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Forschungseinrichtung; Arbeitsbuch; Sprachstil; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Strahlung; Laboratory work; Laborarbeit; Therapie
Abstract	Writing and genre scholarship has become increasingly attuned to how various nontextual features of written genres contribute to the kinds of social actions that the genres perform and to the activities that they mediate. Even though scholars have proposed different ways to account for nontextual features of genres, such attempts often remain undertheorized. By bringing together Writing, Activity, and Genre Research, and Multimodal Interaction Analysis, the authors propose a conceptual framework for multimodal activity-based analysis of genres, or Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre (MWAG) analysis. Furthermore, by drawing on previous studies of the laboratory notebook (lab book) genre, the article discusses the rhetorical action the genre performs and its role in mediating knowledge construction activities in science. The authors provide an illustrative example of the MWAG analysis of an emergent scientist's lab book and discuss its contributions to his increasing participation in medical physics. The study contributes to the development of a theoretically informed analytical framework for integrative multimodal and rhetorical genre analysis, while illustrating how the proposed framework can lead to the insights into the sociorhetorical roles multimodal genres play in mediating such activities as knowledge construction and disciplinary enculturation. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11