Upon IRB approval, a corpus of 1,192 texts consisting of three assignments written by a total of 1,736 first year engineering students was compiled, and 117 pedagogical materials were collected. Using an iterative quantitative-qualitative approach to written discourse analysis, instances of formulaic language (4- and 6-word sequences) were identified in the corpus; formulaic language was then coded for the rhetorical functions expected in problem statements as qualitatively identified in the pedagogical materials. Additionally, three discourse-based interviews were conducted with First-year Engineering Faculty. Interview data was coded for themes of effective communication and used to triangulate the findings from the corpus analysis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/8041229 |
| Date | 14 May 2019 |
| Creators | Ashley J Velazquez (6634796) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/What_s_the_Problem_Statement_An_Investigation_of_Problem-based_Writing_in_a_First_Year_Engineering_Program/8041229 |
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