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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Genre of Power: Police Report Writers and Readers in the Justice System

Genre of Power: Police Report Writers and Readers in the Justice System

Seawright, Leslie

Paperback

Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

Writing InstructionGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0814118429
ISBN13: 9780814118429
Publisher: Natl Council Of Teachers Of En
Published: Sep 4 2017
Pages: 121
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.30 Depth: 5.50
Language: English

The issues of how police officers write reports and how others read those reports have critical implications for people engaged in rhetoric, literacy studies, and critical pedagogy.

Leslie Seawright describes the journey of a police report as it travels through the criminal justice system. Tracing the path of a police report from writer, to supervisor, to prosecutor, to defense lawyer, to judge, this study exposes the way in which power, agency, and authority circulate and accrue between writers and readers. The chained literacy event, created as a report moves through the system, is highlighted and its hierarchical nature examined. The book ultimately addresses the constraints of the police report genre and seeks to expose the complex and multifaceted rhetorical situation of report writing.

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