Learning by Doing | Researching Genre |
After you complete your writing course, you will continue to write in other college courses. Maybe you will write a literary analysis in your English course, a lab report in your biology course, or a proposal in your business course. Using your writing center Web site or the OWL (online writing lab) from another campus, investigate the type of writing that you might be expected to do in your major, in a course you will take next semester, or in a field that sounds interesting. (At the Purdue OWL, for instance, look for “subject-specific writing.”)
What types of writing are done in your field of interest (for example, research essays, case studies, lab reports)?
How is the writing structured (for example, with headings, with an abstract)? There may be more than one answer here, if the different forms you listed above are structured in different ways.
What documentation style does your discipline use (for example, MLA, APA, or another style)?