{"id":2348,"date":"2023-04-20T12:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/?post_type=ksasresearchprojects&#038;p=2348"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:43:38","slug":"learning-to-write-in-my-discipline","status":"publish","type":"ksasresearchprojects","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/projects\/learning-to-write-in-my-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Write in My Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2023\/04\/Learning-to-Write-In-My-Discipline-for-Toolkit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">This assignment<\/a>, developed by UWP Lecturer Laura Hartmann-Villalta, asks students to identify and rhetorically analyze the types of writing produced by members of a discipline&#8211;as though they were explaining each type of document to an intelligent alien. Examples may include research articles, reviews, clinical notes, emails, policy briefs, grant proposals, and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhetorical analysis helps students understand how writing style varies across disciplines and genres: the style they use in a creative writing class may not be appropriate for a psychology paper; moreover, how a psychologist writes about a planned experiment in an email to a colleague is different than how she writes about it in a grant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Options for adaptation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The rhetorical analysis questions found in this assignment could be adapted and used as a low-stakes writing exercise to familiarize students with a new genre before they produce work in that genre. By rhetorically analyzing different examples of the form, students begin to develop a sense of appropriate tone, word choice, structure, and other formal elements for their given discipline and genre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bonus exercise: practice writing for different audiences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2023\/04\/Model-Library-Audiences-Activity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this lighthearted <\/a>exercise, students must communicate news of a \u201cworkplace disaster\u201d to audiences ranging from Baltimore\u2019s mayor to their 8-year old brother.&nbsp;This is a great option if students need additional practice adapting tone, word choice, and level of detail across different contexts. For a different variation, consider asking them to explain a course concept&#8211;or a thesis\/ argument they are developing&#8211;to similarly diverse audiences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercises to help students understand how members of their discipline communicate their work across different contexts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2382,"parent":0,"template":"","project_type":[168],"class_list":["post-2348","ksasresearchprojects","type-ksasresearchprojects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_type-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ksasresearchprojects"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects\/2348\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}