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Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry, Katherine Jesse Royce
Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry, Katherine Jesse Royce
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this formative intervention was to design a professional and technical communications course around rhetorical inquiry. The participants, undergraduate health sciences majors (N=22 for section A, N=20 section B), were observed throughout the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. A rhetorical inquiry framework was applied via activity systems, and data were collected using several methodologies including participant observations, research questionnaires, as well as participant deliverables, and were transcribed using Daisy Mwanza's Eight-Step Model. Results demonstrated students successfully used activity systems as a means of approaching rhetorical inquiry. Furthermore, students indicated a high level of engagement in the …