Genre Study Industrial Engineering Journals 1. Discourse Community a. Advance and streamline industrial engineering topics globally b.

. Peer-reviewed c. Journals are mechanisms of information exchange d. Use impersonal technical language e. Certain degrees, level of education required to participate 2. Genre Notes a. Begins with rhetorical situation b. Depends heavily on the intertextuality (the shaping of a texts meaning by other texts) of discourse c. Genre not only responds to but also constructs recurring situation i. Genres are dynamic and create and are created by context and pragmatic needs ii. Thus discourse communities create and often embody the genre they use d. Situation i. Field what happens ii. Tenor people involved iii. Mode what language is doing 3. Industrial Engineering Genre Technical Assessments meant to be peer reviewed a. Syntax Written impersonally with plenty of data, conclusion, references

b. Semantic Results of research/studies presented as a whole c. Pragmatic Meant to inspire criticism/assessments, different viewpoints, further research