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Russell, Alisa LaDean – Composition Forum, 2018
This article argues that composition studies' professional artifacts and pedagogical materials can perpetuate tacit ideologies about academic language that are in conflict with our field's larger goals toward social justice and inclusion in FYC. In order to exemplify a systematic analysis of our artifacts and materials for their tacit language…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage
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Shi, Ling; Kubota, Ryuko – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
In order to examine the value of explicating genre and rhetorical rules for teaching, this study explores the level of consistency between the linear, deductive discourse pattern recommended for school writing and the actual structure of reading materials selected from seventh- and eighth-grade English language arts textbooks. We focus on 25…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Materials, Language Arts, Literary Genres
Gibson, Stephanie B. – 1993
Using a sample issue of the "Journal of Communication" as a point of comparison, a study examined the content of 10 introductory textbooks for the field of communication. Results indicated that textbooks scarcely ever acknowledge methodological pluralism, and when they do, they simply cite it as an existing factor in the field of communication and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Analysis, Course Content