古敏君 / Min-Chun Ku
To facilitate faculty’s information use and the design of search systems, this study aimed at identifying the task-genre associations in the context of university teaching. Qualitative citation analysis was first employed to identify the genres faculty used based on citations in their teaching materials. Semi-structured interviews were then employed to collect data regarding the tasks they performed to use different genres. Qualitative content analysis was also employed to analyze interview transcripts. 27 faculty members from different disciplines contributed 28 courses. The taskgenre associations this study uncovered illustrate the functions of different genres. The results indicate the teaching tasks participants performed served as the criteria that determined what genres should be included or excluded. DOI: 10.6575/JILA.201906_(94).0001
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