“Standing in Terri Schiavo's Shoes”: The Role of Genre in End-of-Life Decision Making

Schuster, Mary L; Russell, Ann L.; Bartels, Dianne M.; Kelly-Trombley, Holli M.

doi:10.1080/10572252.2013.760061

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“…For example, in Schuster, Russell, Bartels, and Kelly-Trombley (2013), letters from state-appointed guardians, physicians, and administrators function as a genre to operationalize end-of-life decisions for people who cannot make those decisions. In the same way, a successful police report is one that fulfills the action of the criminal justice system; more specifically, for police officers, a successful report is one that aids the court to prosecute crimes.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Recreating the Scene: An Investigation of Police Report Writing

Monas

2018

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Police officers do a significant amount of high-stake writing in police reports, but report writing is given little attention in policy academies, and prevailing guidelines treat the task as a mechanical process of recording facts. As a result, officers are ill-prepared for this essential and inherently complex task. In this study, we interviewed officers to study what makes for a good police report. Our findings reveal that police reports are goal-directed genre actions. This understanding peers through the positivist emphasis on factual details to emphasize the social function of police reports in the criminal justice system.

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confidence: 99%

Recreating the Scene: An Investigation of Police Report Writing

Monas

2018

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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“…Rhetorical genre theory, which offers a framework for tying specific textual features like organization and language choice to larger group aims and institutional systems, has had a prominent role in RHM analyses of medical texts (Emmons, 2009;Teston 2009;Schuster et al, 2013). However, genre theory also offers an entryway for rhetoricians into the pedagogical project of initiating health students into the talk and texts of workplace communication.…”

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The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine as a “Teaching Subject”: Lessons from the Medical Humanities and Simulation Pedagogy

Campbell

2017

Technical Communication Quarterly

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The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine has only begun to intervene in health pedagogy. In contrast, the Medical Humanities has spearheaded curriculum to address dehumanizing trends in medicine. This article argues that rhetorical scholars can align with Medical Humanities' initiatives and also uniquely contribute to health curriculum. Drawing on the author's research on clinical simulation, the article discusses rhetorical methodologies, genre theory, and critical lenses as areas for pedagogical collaboration between rhetoricians and health practitioners.

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“…A total of 13 articles were included in this category. Within this group, several looked at interprofessional interactions within medicine (Derkatch, 2012; Graham & Herndl, 2013; Munger, 2000), others examined medicine’s interfaces with other institutional discourses in the realms of policy, commerce, public health, basic science, and the law (Brasseur, 2005; Kolodziejski, 2014; Leake, 2012; Popham, 2005; Schryer et al., 2009; Schuster et al., 2013; Spafford et al., 2010; Turner, 2005), and still others examined the uptake or circulation of medical discourse by or into lay publics (Ding, 2009, 2013).…”

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Building on Bibliography: Toward Useful Categorization of Research in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine

Reed

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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This article reports on an analysis of research questions in the emerging field of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM). The data set included 54 articles, published in 4 journals between the years 2000 and 2014. The articles were found to address five areas, including questions about (a) the identity of RHM, (b) disciplinarity, (c) ecological interaction, (d) maneuverability, and (e) process. Overall, this article argues that RHM tends to take a critical stance toward medicine, treating it as a monolithic profession and set of discourses. Given the conclusions of many of the articles in the data set, this stance may be unwarranted. The article concludes by suggesting future directions for scholarship in RHM.

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“Standing in Terri Schiavo's Shoes”: The Role of Genre in End-of-Life Decision Making

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Recreating the Scene: An Investigation of Police Report Writing

Recreating the Scene: An Investigation of Police Report Writing

The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine as a “Teaching Subject”: Lessons from the Medical Humanities and Simulation Pedagogy

Building on Bibliography: Toward Useful Categorization of Research in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine

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