Responding to technical writing in an introductory engineering class: The role of genre and discipline |
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| Authors: | Paul Miller Jaye Bausser Audeen Fentiman |
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| Institution: | 1. Doctoral candidate in rhetoric and composition , Ohio State University;2. Associate professor of civil and environmental engineering , Ohio State University |
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| Abstract: | A case study of an experienced professor's comments on a design report in a first‐year engineering class was conducted over the period of an academic year. When compared with the commenting styles of technical writing teachers, the engineering professor's comments were found to be highly directive, and thus at odds with the preference for facilitative comments that prevails in composition studies. However, differences in genre conventions explain much of the discrepancy. |
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