“Everything Is in the Lab Book”: Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre Analysis of Symbolic Mediation in Medical Physics

Writing and genre scholarship has become increasingly attuned to how various nontextual features of written genres contribute the kinds social actions that perform activities they mediate. Even though scholars have proposed different ways account for genres, such attempts often remain undertheorized. By bringing together Writing, Activity, Genre Research, Multimodal Interaction Analysis, authors propose a conceptual framework multimodal activity-based analysis or (MWAG) analysis. Furthermore, by drawing on previous studies laboratory notebook (lab book) genre, article discusses rhetorical action performs its role in mediating knowledge construction science. The provide an illustrative example MWAG emergent scientist’s lab book discuss contributions his increasing participation medical physics. study contributes development theoretically informed analytical integrative analysis, while illustrating can lead insights into sociorhetorical roles play as disciplinary enculturation.