EXERCISE 7.3: THINKING CRITICALLY

Thinking about Your Own Writing in a Discipline

Choose a piece of writing you have produced for a class in a particular discipline—a blog or other posting, a laboratory report, a review of the literature, or any other written assignment. Examine your writing closely for its use of that discipline’s vocabulary, style, methods of proof, and conventional formats. How comfortable are you writing a piece of this kind? In what ways are you using the conventions of the discipline easily and well? What conventions give you difficulty, and why? You might talk to an instructor in this field about the conventions and requirements for writing in the discipline. Make notes on how to be a better writer in the field.

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