ERIC Number: EJ429699
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Publication Date: 1991
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Relating Purpose and Genre through James Britton's Functional Categories.
Boiarsky, Carolyn
Technical Writing Teacher, v18 n2 p95-102 Spr 1991
Discusses the need for a model for technical documents that expresses the relationship between the various technical genres and their rhetorical contexts. Advocates the use of James Britton's model, with its criteria for classifying documents as well as its rationale for a scope and sequence for teaching technical writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Models, Postsecondary Education, Rhetorical Theory, Technical Writing, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Language: English
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