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Teaching Language Awareness in Rhetorical Choice

Using IText and Visualization in Classroom Genre Assignments

David Kaufer

Carnegie Mellon University

Suguru Ishizaki

Carnegie Mellon University

Jeff Collins

Department of the Air Force

Pantelis Vlachos

Carnegie Mellon University

This article introduces an IText system the authors built to enhance student practice in language awareness within commonly taught written genres (e.g., self-portraits, profiles, scenic writing, narratives, instructions, and arguments). The system provides text visualization and analysis that seek to increase students’ sensitivity to the rhetorical and whole-text implications of the small runs of language they read and write. The authors describe the way the system can create possibilities for classroom discourse and discussion about student writing that seem harder to reproduce in traditional writing classrooms. They also describe the limitations of the current system for wide-scale use and its future prospects.

Key Words: text visualization • technology and writing • written genres • language awareness • statistical analysis of texts

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Vol. 18, No. 3, 361-402 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1050651904263980
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