A Genre System View of the Funding of Academic Research

Autor/in	Tardy, Christine M.
Titel	A Genre System View of the Funding of Academic Research
Quelle	In: Written Communication, 20 (2003) 1, S.7-36 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-0883
DOI	10.1177/0741088303253569
Schlagwörter	Grants; Grantsmanship; Educational Research; Classification; Researchers; Financial Support; Writing (Composition); Social Influences; Knowledge Level + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Researcher; Forscher; Finanzielle Förderung; Schreibübung; Sozialer Einfluss; Wissensbasis
Abstract	For many researchers, grant proposals are a high-stakes genre crucial to their work; this pivotal genre does not exist in isolation but as part of a complex reticulation of genres that interact to form a genre system. This article explores the genre system of academic research funding in terms of the following questions: (a) What is the nature of the genre system of grant funding? (b) What are the roles and functions of that system? and (c) What does exploration of the system reveal about genre knowledge and how writers develop such knowledge? Findings suggest that grant writing is fundamentally a social activity, that the intertextual networks of the genre system serve to navigate writers through that system and to build the writers' knowledge of the system, and that knowledge of a genre system may differ in important ways from knowledge of an isolated genre. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10