Literacy of engineers at a shipping company

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Literacy of engineers at a shipping company

• (Ingenjörers skriftbruk på ett rederi)
• By Erik Hemming, Senior Lecturer at the Åland
  Polytechnic, ehe_at_ha.ax, www.ha.ax/erik

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Purpose

• What and how engineers read and write
• Locally based shipping company
• All are our alumni

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Method

• Shadowing à la Karlsson
• One day samples
• Registering literacy events
• Texts and milieux
• Purposes
• Competencies

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Results

• Three main purposes of using texts
• 1. Ascertain, control, report
• 2. Organise, inform
• 3. Learn

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Media

• Intranet
• Email
• LANs
• Invoice processing system
• Digital photos
• Post-its
• Journals

• Forms
• Files
• Posters
• Lists
• Manuals
• Catalogues
• Drawings
• Gauges

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Conclusions

• Context implicit
• Learning by doing (in a group)
• Codes for competence
• Efficiency
• More text-based communication
• More elaborate codes?

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Background

• Guidance project (LSD)
• Acculturation into higher education
• Codes, genres, strategies
• Both ways?
• The FLIP group www.ha.ax/flip