Writing like a builder: Acquiring a professional genre in a pedagogical setting

Vocational students' writing has received little scholarly attention. This article investigates a key written genre produced by carpentry trainees: the Builders' Diary. This is a professional genre that has been adapted for pedagogical purposes. Both quantitative corpus methods and qualitative methods (interviews and textual analysis) were employed. Our corpus included Builders' Diaries written by students during an initial on-campus year, and...