Using rhetorical genre theory, the authors theorize the engineering design process as a type of embodied genre enacted through typified performances of bodies engaged with discourses, texts, and objects in genre-rich spaces of design activity. The authors illustrate this through an analysis of ethnographic data from an engineering design course to show how a genred repertoire of embodied routines is demonstrated for students and later taken up as part of their design work. A greater appreciation of the interconnection between genre and design as well as the role of typification in producing embodied genres can potentially transform how writing studies conceive of and teach both design processes and genres in technical and professional communication settings.

使用修辞体裁理论，作者将工程设计过程理论化为一种具体体裁，通过在体裁丰富的设计活动空间中与话语、文本和物体接触的身体的典型表现而制定。作者通过对工程设计课程中的人种学数据进行分析来说明这一点，以展示如何向学生展示一种类型化的具体例程曲目，并随后将其作为他们设计工作的一部分。更好地理解体裁和设计之间的相互联系以及典型化在产生具体体裁中的作用可能会改变写作研究在技术和专业交流环境中构思和教授设计过程和体裁的方式。