Genre Writing and Communicative Purpose: Sharing Research Insights with Teachers as Stakeholders (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

This chapter reports on the researcher’s efforts to disseminate findings arrived at in her 2015 study focusing on the importance of communicative purpose for genre-based writing instruction. This finding is shared with two groups of stakeholders at the university-based places of practice: full-time and part-time teachers of writing. Following the Framework for Application (2015), dissemination tools were designed by carefully selecting data sets, creating brief explanations of findings, and formulating research relevance questions meant to facilitate the practitioners’ feedback. These tools were revised a number of times based on different stakeholder group needs. What was considered most transparent research data representing student-produced genres was selected for a handout. Three pre-planned questions and a modified data sample set were used to discuss the findings’ relevance to these teacher groups. The sharing with the part-time writing instructors retained a more focus group ...

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