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Leslie Seawright's thoughtful, thorough study introduces us to a population of writers that most of us are not familiar with--police report writers--and shows us how their documents must thread their way through several layers of readers, all of whom bring their own assumptions and purposes to the reading. Seawright clearly demonstrates how a seemingly simple but actually deceptively complex genre shapes action in an important, active discourse community. --David A. Jolliffe, University of Arkansas Genre of Power offers a fascinating account of the travels of one police report through the judicial system. Seawright humanizes the process through observations, interviews, and her own unique access to the judicial system. Detailing the cultural and social capital of the writer of these reports and their readers, Seawright has produced the first book of its kind in the field of literacy studies as it relates to scholarship and genre studies, technical writing, and institutional literacies. ---- Ellen Cushman, Northeastern University

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Leslie E. Seawright is an Assistant Professor in the Liberal Arts Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She teaches courses in Technical Writing, Composition, and Literature and other Arts. Her published articles and book chapters focus on writing pedagogy, intercultural communication, and workplace literacy practices.

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