Institutional Rhetorical Genres: Implication and Identity
This paper introduces the idea of rhetorical genre, drawing on previous research in rhetorical genre theory to explain how the genres used in institutions affect the personal and professional lives of people who use them, and how they naturalize certain ideologies in those institutional settings. Th...
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ftmountroyaluni:oai:ualberta_jrnl_mrujs:article/770 2024-05-12T08:06:10+00:00 Institutional Rhetorical Genres: Implication and Identity Krzpiet, Victoria 2024-04-09 application/pdf https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/mruhr/article/view/770 https://doi.org/10.29173/mruhr770 eng eng Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/mruhr/article/view/770/616 https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/mruhr/article/view/770 doi:10.29173/mruhr770 Copyright (c) 2024 Victoria Krzpiet https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR); Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue: Storied Society 2562-4733 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2024 ftmountroyaluni https://doi.org/10.29173/mruhr770 2024-04-17T14:22:39Z This paper introduces the idea of rhetorical genre, drawing on previous research in rhetorical genre theory to explain how the genres used in institutions affect the personal and professional lives of people who use them, and how they naturalize certain ideologies in those institutional settings. The paper lays out how—while rhetorical genres serve many practical purposes—they also affect power relations within an institution and can compromise the identity of the individual using them. When assessing the efficacy of these genres, this paper remarks, it is important to question how they were constructed and for whom. To further explore this topic, the paper recounts the personal experience relayed in previous research by Anthony Paré, in which he taught a professional writing course to female Inuit social workers. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Mount Royal University: MRU Journal System Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR) 7 1 |
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This paper introduces the idea of rhetorical genre, drawing on previous research in rhetorical genre theory to explain how the genres used in institutions affect the personal and professional lives of people who use them, and how they naturalize certain ideologies in those institutional settings. The paper lays out how—while rhetorical genres serve many practical purposes—they also affect power relations within an institution and can compromise the identity of the individual using them. When assessing the efficacy of these genres, this paper remarks, it is important to question how they were constructed and for whom. To further explore this topic, the paper recounts the personal experience relayed in previous research by Anthony Paré, in which he taught a professional writing course to female Inuit social workers. |
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