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Download full textMunger, Roger H. – 1995
Since written reports are completed on most calls to which emergency medical technicians (EMTs) respond, report writing is an important part of their professional lives. Discourse analysis focused on how EMTs establish professional authority using specific rhetorical strategies when completing "run reports." One way of understanding the…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Discourse Analysis, Emergency Medical Technicians, Jargon
