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Cooney, Emily – Community Literacy Journal, 2014
In making a case for ecocomposition, Sidney Dobrin has claimed that writing, place, and environment cannot be separated. As Donehower, Hogg, and Schell and Deborah Brandt might argue, literacy cannot be separated from place either. But it might sometimes be separated from environment as an ecosystem that has value distinct from, and without the…
Descriptors: Debate, Stakeholders, Ecology, Environmental Education
Bizzocchi, Jim; Tanenbaum, Joshua – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2012
Digital games have matured substantially as a narrative medium in the last decade. However, there is still much work to be done to more fully understand the poetics of story-based-games. Game narrative remains an important issue with significant cultural, economic and scholarly implications. In this article, we undertake a critical analysis of the…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Case Studies, Computer Games, Video Games
Horn, Ilana Seidel; Little, Judith Warren – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
The authors investigate how conversational routines, or the practices by which groups structure work-related talk, function in teacher professional communities to forge, sustain, and support learning and improvement. Audiotaped and videotaped records of teachers' work group interactions, supplemented by interviews and material artifacts, were…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Practices, Professional Development, Protocol Materials

Suchan, James; Dulek, Ronald – Management Communication Quarterly, 1990
Argues for a contingency view of communication clarity and effectiveness based on the impact that an organization's language customs have on perceived effectiveness. Examines the psychological-social function of organizational language and discusses the role that language has in creating new knowledge in organizations. (KEH)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes, Language Role
Hartley, Peter – Technical Writing Teacher, 1991
Contrasts the presentational mode of industrial writing--its strategies and techniques--with the reflective mode of traditional academic essay writing. Details industrial writing techniques and the organizational reasons for such techniques. (SR)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes, Postsecondary Education
Beaufort, Anne – 1992
In writing, as in conversation, there are implicit boundaries which separate various modes of communication, and these boundaries cause exclusion, discomfort, and misunderstanding. The existence of these boundaries results in a number of issues, such as the categorization of texts, the differences between writing for English classes and writing in…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes
Crespo, Sandra – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
In this article, the author examines the character of the conversations generated in an elementary teacher group as they worked on mathematical problems together and analyzed their students' work. Two distinct forms of talk--"exploratory" and "expository"--were found. The first type of talk occurred most prominently when discussions centered on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Group Discussion, Mathematics Teachers
Bartels, Nat – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2003
This study looks at language teachers' and language researchers' expectations and evaluations of two kinds of journal articles, either researcher-oriented or teacher-oriented. The results show that teachers and academics use different ways of validating information in journal articles and use the information contained in them in distinctly…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Language Teachers, Researchers, Periodicals
Fisher, Maisha T. – English Education, 2005
In the two high school writing communities described in this article, literacy is strategic, purposeful, and always linked to meaning. The foundation for literate practices in these communities is Freirian in nature. Teachers, in a very serious way, work to liberate language and prepare students to be in control of words; they do this by allowing…
Descriptors: Poetry, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Discourse Communities