Moving from School to Workplace: Disciplinary Innovation, Border Crossing, and the Reshaping of a Written Genre  

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Parks, Susan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 22 no. 4 (Dec. 2001), page 405-438.
Fulltext: 22.4;405-438.pdf (1.76MB)

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Although studies focusing on new employees' ability to appropriate work related genres have tended to feature workplaces where the genres in use are well-established, the present study presents a more complex scenario involving disciplinary innovation through the introduction of a new genre and the experiences of graduates trained in the use of this genre as they ventured into the workplace. Specifically, the study involves francophone nurses, who were trained to write nursing care plans during their studies in francophone universities in the province of Quebec (Canada) and were then employed to work in an English-medium hospital in Montreal. Data for the study, which involved 11 nurses, were gathered using qualitative research procedures. including interviews, observation on the units, and the collection of documents. as well as a formal task. In contrast to previous studies, the care plans produced by the new nurses at the English hospital did not over time increasingly reflect criteria for 'good' care plan writing as identified by a more experienced employee. Drawing on Russell's (1997) synthesis of Engestrom's systems version of activity theory and genre theory, the study suggests how the divergences which emerged at the rhetorical level were related to differences in the appropriation of motive. The various positionings within discourse were further discussed in terms of how macro-level events mediate locally produced, micro-level events.

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