Writing the Trenches What Students of Technical Writing and Literature Can Learn Together

We argue for a course in which students analyze writing about a common topic—in this case World War I—from multiple genres (e.g., poetry and technical manuals). We address the divide between instruction in pragmatic and literary writing and calls to bridge that gap. Students working in disparate are...

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Published inJournal of technical writing and communication Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 280 - 299
Main Authors Baake, Ken, Shelton, Jen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Alignment (Education)
Content Area Writing
Curricula
Figurative Language
Historical Interpretation
Intermode Differences
Literary Criticism
Literary Genres
Literature
Literature Appreciation
Pragmatics
Rhetorical Criticism
Teaching Methods
Technical communication
Technical Writing
War
World War I
Writing
Writing Strategies
technical writing
literature
English studies
technical manuals
writing curriculum
history
rhetoric
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Summary:We argue for a course in which students analyze writing about a common topic—in this case World War I—from multiple genres (e.g., poetry and technical manuals). We address the divide between instruction in pragmatic and literary writing and calls to bridge that gap. Students working in disparate areas of English learn the strengths and the limitations of their fields, and how text represents and promotes different interpretations of reality. Such written representations do not neatly line up along a utilitarian-literary binary but are more closely interwoven in the presence of a profound subject such as war.
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ISSN:0047-2816
1541-3780
DOI:10.1177/0047281616641922