Understanding Direct Mail Letters as a genre

A genre Analysis of the Scholarly Electronic Mail: Implications for ‎Pedagogy

Scholarly mails apparently display stable conventional principles as an emerging genre. Thus, contributors should structure their electronic mails appropriately when writing for purposes of discussing professional topics. However, this requirement plunges many a scholar in dilemma as to how to go about this vital undertaking without written structural norms in electronic mail communication. Thi...

a contrastive genre analysis of persian and english job application letters

کارشناسان "بررسی مقابله ای نوشتار" در زبان های مختلف بر این باورند که زبان و فرهنگ مبدأ بر نحوه ی نگارش نویسندگان در زبان دوم تاثیر گذار است. درخواست نامه های شغلی نیز از این قاعده مستثنا نیستند. بر پایه ی اصول بررسی "ژانر" یا "نوع" قادر خواهیم بود به بینشی در زمینه ی یک "ژانر" یا "نوع" خاص مانند درخواست نامه های شغلی دست یابیم. علیرغم مطالعات متعدد در زمینه ی جنبه های گوناگون "بررسی نوع" و ...

Weblogs as a bridging genre

Understanding the Fourth-Grade Slump: Comprehension Difficulties as a Function of Reader Aptitudes and Text Genre

Our goal in this project is to develop a better understanding of young readers’ difficulties in comprehending text, and how those difficulties vary as a function of reader aptitudes and text genre. Therefore, we examined the effects of reading decoding abilities and world knowledge (assessed using the Woodcock–Johnson III Tests of Achievement) on 61 third-grade readers’ comprehension of narrati...

Understanding TwitterTM Use among Parliament Representatives: A Genre Analysis

This article examines parliament representatives’ Twittercontributions (tweets). First, the genre of communication approach is introduced to identify common characteristics and communication patterns. Second, the findings are analysed using various eDemocracy models and deliberative standards to identify to what extent these tweets could be characterized as part of a deliberative discussion. Th...