Velazquez, Ashley J What's the 'Problem' Statement? An Investigation of Problem-based Writing in a First Year Engineering Program Upon IRB approval, a corpus of 1,192 texts consisting of three assignments written by a total of 1,736 first year engineering students was compiled, and 117 pedagogical materials were collected. Using an iterative quantitative-qualitative approach to written discourse analysis, instances of formulaic language (4- and 6-word sequences) were identified in the corpus; formulaic language was then coded for the rhetorical functions expected in problem statements as qualitatively identified in the pedagogical materials. Additionally, three discourse-based interviews were conducted with First-year Engineering Faculty. Interview data was coded for themes of effective communication and used to triangulate the findings from the corpus analysis. Engineering education research;Corpus Linguistics & Language Pedagogy;Genre Analysis;Effective communication;writing in engineering;English for Specific Purposes (ESP);Genre Studies;Writing in the Disciplines (WID);formulaic language;Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy;Engineering Practice;English as a Second Language;Communication Studies;Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics;Professional Writing;Technical Writing 2019-05-14
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