forward: query re genre analysis

[sauer at ANDREW.CMU.EDU]

Email David Kaufer, Dept. of English, Carnegie Mellon university
(kaufer at andrew.cmu.edu) who's working on a computer program called Docuscope
that enables you to look for features of a genre in a text.

See also Berkinkootter and Huckin:  Genre knowledge in disciplinary
communication (lawrence erlbaum) and

Bazerman, Charles. Shaping Written Knowledge:  The genre and activity of the
experimental article in science (Wisconsin).

Bev Sauer
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University

--On Tue, May 1, 2001 4:11 PM -0500 "Mary Bucholtz" <bucholtz at TAMU.EDU>
wrote:

> I'm forwarding the following request, since this isn't my area of
> expertise. Any recommendations I can pass along?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mary Bucholtz
> -------------
>
> I have been told you are a specialist on discourse analysis and I would
like
> to know whether you could help me in finding updated bibliography on
> 'genre analysis'.
>  I am currently working on a research project for a PH. D. in Pedagogical
> Sciencies. It has to do with a methodology for the teaching of
> written medical genres. The first part of the research involves the
analysis
> of these genres. Unfortunately, the access to information on this topic is
> very limited because there are no texts or courses on the area.
>  If I could count on you, this would be the real start of the project.
Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Sincerily yours,
>
>  M. Sc.Rafael Forteza Fdez
>  Faculty of Medical Sciences
>  Holguín, Cuba
> forteza at enfer.hlg.sld.cu
>
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>
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