Tag: rhetorical genre studies
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Unconventional / Unconventionality
How do you categorize that which defies categorization? For the purposes of this website, we use “unconventional” as an imperfect umbrella term meant to signal any dissertation that departs from convention(s) in a way deemed to be effective or successful by the intended audience (Tardy, 2016). This approach foregrounds the social dimensions of unconventionality, which…
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Type of relationship construed between atypical/ unconventional component(s) and conventional/ written component(s)
Source Note: This tentative framing has been adapted from Ravelli et al. (2013) who analysed the relationship between the creative and written components of visual and performing arts dissertations. Parallel Atypical or unconventional component(s) and written or conventional component(s) are treated as parallel processes with little textual connections created between them. For instance, there’s no…
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Distance between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)
Source Note: This tentative framing has been adapted from Ravelli et al. (2013) who analysed the relationship between the creative and written components of visual and performing arts dissertations. Separate(d) Atypical or unconventional component(s) is not really visible in the written or conventional component(s) or is positioned as separate from the institutional copy of the…
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Institutional Copy (or record)
The term “institutional copy” is often used to refer to the institutional record of the dissertation, after it has passed examination. Often the institutional copy of the dissertation is the same thing as the dissertation–but not always. For instance, the institutional copy of Archibald’s (1997) dissertation is the dissertation, but in Visconti’s (2015) case, the…
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Areas of unconventionality in academic writing
Source: Tardy (2016, p. 131). Linguistic & Textual form Unusual word choices; non-canonical grammar forms; mixing of linguistic codes; unconventional move structures. Modality Integration of unconventional modalities; use of an uncommon modality for that genre. Rhetorical aims and strategies Unconventional use of stance or engagement markers; use of rhetorical appeals uncommon to the genre. Content…
