Genre, media, and communicating to learn in the disciplines: Vygotsky developmental theory and North American genre theory

What is the relationship between medium and genre in learning and development? North American genre theory suggests following Miller (1984, 1994) that genre is social action. Genres evoke expectations, direct attention, guide action and suggest 'what motives we may have.' Yet the relations...

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Autores principales:	Russell,David, Harms,Patricia
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2010
Materias:	Genre media engineering education writing-to-learn writing across the curriculum
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description	What is the relationship between medium and genre in learning and development? North American genre theory suggests following Miller (1984, 1994) that genre is social action. Genres evoke expectations, direct attention, guide action and suggest 'what motives we may have.' Yet the relationship between media and genres, as Miller suggested at SIGET IV (1997), is complex. The blog, for example, quickly evolved from being one genre to many genres and, today, might be said to be a medium more than a genre. Bazerman at SIGET IV (2007) argued, following Vygotsky (1997), that genres −particularly written genres− 'provide highly differentiated, scaffolded communicative spaces in which we learn the cognitive practices of specialized domains.' This paper provides some evidence for Bazerman's theory from a case study of students in engineering. It shows how genres may scaffold development by directing attention and focusing motivation to ensembles of genres in a range of media, and repay greater study.
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title	Genre, media, and communicating to learn in the disciplines: Vygotsky developmental theory and North American genre theory
title_short	Genre, media, and communicating to learn in the disciplines: Vygotsky developmental theory and North American genre theory
title_full	Genre, media, and communicating to learn in the disciplines: Vygotsky developmental theory and North American genre theory
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publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje
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Genre, media, and communicating to learn in the disciplines: Vygotsky developmental theory and North American genre theory

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