TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion and the Economy of Genre in a Design Presentation
AU - Weedon, J. Scott
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
PY - 2020/4/2
Y1 - 2020/4/2
N2 - Part of learning a discipline’s genres is learning how one’s work must be presented. Students confronting this economy of genre sometimes chafe at its restrictions, and their apprehension reveals unsuspected stakes for technical communication. In interviews, students discuss how their final presentations fail to capture the sophistication and the nuances of their designs, suggesting that learning genres is not just about participation but also about letting go of competing ways of conceiving practice.
AB - Part of learning a discipline’s genres is learning how one’s work must be presented. Students confronting this economy of genre sometimes chafe at its restrictions, and their apprehension reveals unsuspected stakes for technical communication. In interviews, students discuss how their final presentations fail to capture the sophistication and the nuances of their designs, suggesting that learning genres is not just about participation but also about letting go of competing ways of conceiving practice.
KW - Engineering communication
KW - design presentations
KW - genre theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075029620&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10572252.2019.1689297
DO - 10.1080/10572252.2019.1689297
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075029620
SN - 1057-2252
VL - 29
SP - 188
EP - 201
JO - Technical Communication Quarterly
JF - Technical Communication Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -