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@PHDTHESIS{Kux:852442,
author = {Kux, Christian},
othercontributors = {Jakobs, Eva-Maria and Niehr, Thomas},
title = {{S}chreiben im {I}ngenieurberuf : {E}ine qualitative
{L}angzeitstudie},
school = {Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Aachen},
publisher = {RWTH Aachen University},
reportid = {RWTH-2022-08081},
pages = {1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen, Diagramme},
year = {2022},
note = {Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen
University; Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische
Hochschule Aachen, 2022},
abstract = {The dissertation is part of the research field of writing
in the workplace. In particular, it addresses the following
research gap as postulated by Jakobs and Perrin (2014: 19)
"Future writing research has to develop a more inclusive and
systematic understanding of the environments in which
writing takes place and with which it interacts". This gap
is investigated with a focus on written parts of the work of
engineers. In addtion, the study examines and compares two
professional fields: engineering in science and business.
The investigation is designed as a long-term study. To the
knowledge of the author, there is a lack of such
investigations on this topic; most studies from the field
only provide short-term ‚snapshots‘ on writing in the
workplace. The long-term study examines four research
questions: - Research question 1: What characterizes the
editing of written work components among engineers and what
current challenges of text production do engineers face? -
Research Question 2: How do domains, time periods, and work
experience affect the professional writing among engineers?
- Research Question 3: How are engineers prepared for or
supported in managing writing-related tasks? - Research
Question 4: What influence do disruptive events have on
text-production among engineers? The corpus of data
collected for the analysis of this thesis covers a period of
18 years. The surveys were conducted at different points
within this period. An initial thesis of the long-term study
is that contexts and person-related variables change over
time and that these changes can affect written tasks and
their completion. Accordingly, the comparison of samples
collected at different points in time is directed toward
evidence of the stability or variance of phenomena over
time. A variance may mean that a phenomenon occurs with
different weights and/or that trends emerge. The
dissertation project is empirical-exploratory in nature. The
database comprises 229 interviews, 145 hours of audio
material, and 2059 transcript pages. The starting point is
formed by interviews from the Aachen corpus from 2004 to
2018 (112 interviews), which were supplemented by further
surveys in subsequent years. The evaluation adopts
qualitative content analysis (Mayring 2010) for several
dimensions: comparison by domain, the date of the survey and
domain, and professional experience groups. The
classification, interpretation, and discussion of the
results are extend Jakobs' (2007) context model of workplace
writing. The results provide a detailed insight into the
subject of the study. They confirm the conceptualization of
professional writing as a strongly domain-specific activity
coined in the 2010s, which has undergone partly continuous
and partly disruptive change over the period under
consideration (2004 to 2021). The sub-studies capturing
disruptive changes during the Corona pandemic are new and
unique in their kind. Evaluation by time shows strong
effects: There are rather few constant phenomena, such as
standard writing tasks and their relevance to the completion
of work and to career trajectories. Dynamics vary. Changes
can be more or less continuous as well as disruptive (e.g.,
during the corona pandemic). Under "normal conditions,"
i.e., during periods without disruptive contextual changes,
they become weaker or less noticeable from the inside out
relative to the shells of the contextual model. In times of
disruptive change (Corona study), the effects are similarly
strong at different levels (organizational,
workplace-related, individual-related).The strongest
differentiating factor is the domain in its embedding in
superordinate socio-economic, cultural, and temporal
contexts. Text-production changes to different degrees and
at different rates depending on the domain. The economic
domain shows a greater dynamic than the scientific domain.
The domain-specific differences result in particular from
the motives or occasions du to which writing takes place.
The influence of work experience on workplace writing is
significant. However, it manifests itself primarily in
domain-specific ways. Representatives of both domains see a
considerable need for action in terms of training and
further education for career starters as well as for the
course of a professional career. On the one hand, the
results of the dissertation allow a deeper understanding of
the subject area and its description. On the other hand,
they imply - as all research does - a need for further
research. This includes studies in which the same
individuals are interviewed at different points in time on
the same subject as well as studies that accompany emerging
subdomains. Studies on many other domains and subdomains are
lacking. Further studies would have to clarify how
text-productive activity differs depending on the industry
(e.g., chemical industry versus IT company), the type of
company (e.g., sole proprietor, SME, corporation),
professional roles, and organizational-functional units
(written work shares of managers and trainers, in
construction, production, sales, and marketing) to be able
to develop training and continuing education programs that
are as demand-oriented as possible.},
cin = {735320},
ddc = {400},
cid = {$I:(DE-82)792020_20140620$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2022-08081},
url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/852442},
}
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