From Page to Stage: How Theories of Genre and Situated Learning Help Introduce Engineering Students to Discipline-Specific Communication.
- Resource Type
- Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
- Authors
- Artemeva, Natasha; Logie, Susan; St-Martin, Jennie
- Source
- Technical Communication Quarterly. Sum 1999 8(3):301-316.
- Subject
- Communication Skills
Curriculum Design
Educational Theories
Engineering Education
Foreign Countries
Higher Education
Instructional Innovation
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1057-2252
Describes a discipline-specific communication course for engineering students offered by a Canadian university. Suggests that a pedagogical approach based on North American theories of genre and theories of situated learning can be used to design communication courses tailored to the needs of any discipline under certain conditions. Lists three key conditions. (SC)