Rhetorical Strategies Used by Information Technology Students in In-Class Presentations

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dc.contributor.authorEllederová, Evacs
dc.coverage.issue1cs
dc.coverage.volume11cs
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-08T10:54:02Z
dc.date.available2023-08-08T10:54:02Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-31cs
dc.description.abstractRhetoric plays an important role in helping information technology (IT) professionals communicate their ideas clearly and effectively. By employing rhetorical devices when speaking about technology topics, IT professionals can present logical and convincing arguments, and demonstrate their knowledge and expertise while engaging the audience and making complex technical concepts more accessible for non-experts. This study attempts to understand how IT students construct and develop persuasive arguments by analysing their use of rhetorical strategies in a sample of persuasive presentations delivered in the course “English for IT”. Both corpus analysis and manual analysis were used to identify different types of rhetorical strategies students employed to influence their audiences’ attitudes. The results show that IT students not only created a logical appeal which might be more natural for them but also employed a wide range of rhetorical strategies and devices to establish disciplinary credibility and create a more personal connection with their audience, thus maintaining an appropriate balance of logos, ethos and pathos. The study further recommends systematic and careful rhetorical analysis of ESP (English for specific purposes) students’ spoken language across disciplines and the consequent adaption of learning materials and teaching methods to improve ESP students’ rhetoric skills.en
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dc.identifier.citationIAFOR Journal of Education. 2023, vol. 11, issue 1, p. 121-141.en
dc.identifier.doi10.22492/ije.11.1.07cs
dc.identifier.issn2187-0594cs
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-2375-9426cs
dc.identifier.other183649cs
dc.identifier.researcheridAAH-7799-2021cs
dc.identifier.scopus57543392200cs
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11012/213738
dc.language.isoencs
dc.publisherThe International Academic Forum (IAFOR)cs
dc.relation.ispartofIAFOR Journal of Educationcs
dc.relation.urihttps://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-education/volume-11-issue-1/article-7/cs
dc.rights(C) The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)cs
dc.rights.accessopenAccesscs
dc.rights.sherpahttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/2187-0594/cs
dc.subjectethosen
dc.subjectlogosen
dc.subjectinformation technology studentsen
dc.subjectmetadiscourse markersen
dc.subjectpathosen
dc.subjectpersuasive presentationsen
dc.titleRhetorical Strategies Used by Information Technology Students in In-Class Presentationsen
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dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
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sync.item.insts2023.08.08 16:56:04en
sync.item.modts2023.08.08 16:15:19en
thesis.grantorVysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií. Ústav jazykůcs
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