This paper explores the current affordances and limitations of video game genre from a library and information science perspective with an emphasis on classification theory. We identify and discuss various purposes of genre relating to video games, including identity, collocation and retrieval, commercial marketing, and educational instruction. Through the use of examples, we discuss the ways i...

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1 David E. Hailey, Technical Communication, 3200 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, [email protected]. 2 Christine E Hailey, Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX 75799, [email protected]. Abstract – A growing body of empirical research has implied that media seem to make little difference in education. In contras...

this study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of efl students in iran. the information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

In recent years, different writing researchers have stressed the importance of integrating text-based and reader-based approaches in instruction to enable EFL learners write both coherently purposefully. However, combining these two basic features students’ remains a challenging task for students teachers. Given this challenge, present paper describes model that combines based on Rhetorical Str...

Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity  to  compare  the  sociocultural values of different  speech  communities  as reflected  in  the  textual  content  and  organization  of  the  different  moves.  Students  can  be exposed  to  this  genre  and  its  different moves  using  a  genre-based  pedagogy. Genre-based ped...

Reflecting one of the state-of-the-art issues in SLA, this study aimed at inspecting correspondence between Persian and English writing skills to see whether or not they emerged from a single entity called multi-competence (Cook, 1991, 2016). Besides, impact genre on was examined explore if their possible source were genre-sensitive not. In so doing, 50 MA TEFL students, intermediate level lang...