Situating Transnational Genre Knowledge: A Genre Trajectory Analysis of One Student's Personal and Academic Writing

    Authors

    A. Rounsaville

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Writ. Commun.

    Keywords

    transnational literacy; rhetorical genre studies; literacy as situated; and dispersed; transcontextual analysis; genre knowledge; ANTECEDENT GENRE; LITERACIES; Communication

    Abstract

    Scholars have recently begun to conceive of literacy practices as drawing from resources that are simultaneously situated and extracontextual. In particular, studies of transnational literacy affirm the importance of both locality and movement in literacy studies. Continuing this inquiry into the situated and dispersed nature of transnational literacy, the author investigates the distinct effects that shuttling between national contexts have on the accumulation and use of genre knowledge. Specifically, through a case study of one Third Culture Kid student writer, the author reports on how her genre knowledge develops in response to transnational relocations between Italy and the United States and the way this transnational genre knowledge informs her writing of a high-stakes in-school genre. This case illustrates the value of rhetorical genre studies for understanding the situated and dispersed nature of transnational literacy and begins to outline the distinctiveness of transnational boundary-crossing practices.

    Journal Title

    Written Communication

    Volume

    31

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    332

    Last Page

    364

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000340198500004

    ISSN

    0741-0883

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