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What's the 'Problem' Statement? An Investigation of Problem-based Writing in a First Year Engineering Program

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.

  1. 10.25394/pgs.8041229.v1
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/8041229
Date14 May 2019
CreatorsAshley J Velazquez (6634796)
Source SetsPurdue University
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, Thesis
RightsCC BY 4.0
Relationhttps://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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