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Claire Simpson-Smith |
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Simpson-Smith, Claire, 9th Research in Engineering Education Symposium and 32nd Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference, REES AAEE 2021 Perth, Australia 5-8 December 2021 |
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Claire Simpson-Smith |
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CONTEXT Professional writing skills are fundamental for engineers. Engineering degree program outcomes include the development of students' written communication ability as part of their professional competencies. The need to improve the effectiveness of curriculum in this area has been acknowledged for several decades, however, a gap remains between the expectations of employers and graduate ability. Making progress in this area remains challenging for both students and engineering academics and written assignments across the curriculum do not necessarily enable to students to master the skills required to write high quality engineering documents. PURPOSE AND METHODOLOGY Applied linguistics methodologies can offer robust strategies for making writing practices explicit so that students can learn to write effectively and appropriately for both academic and professional purposes. For example, analytical techniques drawn from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) have been used to investigate how grammar is used to enact social relationships such as those between engineer and client. This paper investigates the writing style of professional engineering reports using methodologies provided by SFL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The results demonstrate clear differences in the use of particular aspects of grammar depending on the type of professional relationship between the engineer and their client. These results highlight the need to make the function of grammar explicit to students, to enable them to develop control of the appropriate professional writing style. Some suggestions are made in terms of integration of explicit functional grammar content in the engineering curriculum. Refereed/Peer-reviewed |
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OpenAIRE |
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