Recent conversations
with students at my own institution, part of a reaccreditation-related research
project undertaken to investigate uses of academic technology, confirmed my
sense of students' uses of genre in courses outside the English Department.
Some students would have liked
instruction in creating newsletters, and one student mentioned that she had been
required to write newsletters in at least two courses. Other students mentioned
that they were required to write Webpages and Power Point presentations in
upper-level classes.