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Studies of Fund raising Internationally The goal of this project is to provide an opportunity for an international
group of scholars in linguistics, rhetoric, and communication studies
to work collaboratively with fundraisers to begin planning a corpus
of fund raising texts from Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the
United States. Our approach to this project is to look at one international
non-profit organization, the International Nursing Association,
and examine how the national affiliates in these different cultures
go about accomplishing their common mission. Our assumption is that
by holding the organization and mission constant, it will allow
us to more clearly see the influence that culture plays on the fund raising
efforts of non-profits. Our research questions are: Articles by the Project Members to Download Upton, T., & de Rovzar, M. (2002). Case study of the American British Cowdray School of Nursing (ABCSN). The CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement, 3(2), 163-172. Upton, T. Editorial: Nursing papers. Connor, U. Epilogue: Case studies in cross-cultural fund raising. Goering, E. A case study of the Deutscher Berufsverband für Pflegeberufe (DBfK). Goering, E. Case study of the American Nurses Association. Connor, U. Case study of the Finnish Federation of Nurses. The Indianapolis Business Learner Corpus (IBLC) Learner corpora represent an important new development in corpus linguistics. Most learner corpora, however, focus on argumentative essays, other timed writing exercises, or school assignments in general. These corpora provide significant data on academic English for interlanguage contrasts, which are beneficial for research in L2 acquisition as well as L2 teaching. However, recent research in genre analysis has focused more specifically on English for professional purposes using a variety of corpora. In fact, there is growing understanding that different types of writing skills and strategies are needed to perform different types of writing tasks. In order to control the investigation of the writing for a specific professional writing task, a very carefully controlled purpose-such as applying for a job-in a corpus is essential. The Indianapolis Business Learner Corpus (IBLC) was initiated to
help meet this need for situation-specific corpora. The IBLC is
composed of job application letters and résumés of
business communication students from the U.S., Belgium, Finland,
Germany, and Thailand, spanning the years 1990-1998. ICIC's general
goals for the IBLC are to study language use, accommodation across
cultures, and genre acquisition of native and non-native speaking
students in an undergraduate business communication class. The data
are a product of a cross-cultural U.S.-Flemish-Finnish job application
simulation. Participants in this simulation were undergraduate university
students in courses which had parallel components, including: "1)
instruction in international business writing; 2) a simulation,
in which students exchange business documents internationally; and
3) case studies of business people who communicate internationally
in writing" For further information and inquiries on current ICIC's research and use of the ICIC Fund raising Corpus for academic purposes, contact the project members above or ICIC.
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