Resources on Disciplinary Writing

Resources on Disciplinary Writing

http://wac.colostate.edu/bib/index.cfm?categoryid=8

Overviews:

Bazerman, C. (1981). "What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11: 361-87.

Bazerman, C. & J. Paradis (eds.) 1991. Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and contemporary studies of writing in professional communities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Joliffe, D. (ed.) 1988. Writing in Academic Disciplines ( = Advances in Writing Research 2). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Myers, G. (1990). Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Myers, G. 1985. The Social Construction of Two Biologists' Proposals". Written Communication 2: 219-245.

MacDonald S.P. (1994). Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Carbondale and Edwardsville: SIUP Press.

Faigley and Hansen, K. 1985. Learning to Write in the Social Sciences." CCC 36:140-49.

Vande Kopple, W. 1992. "Noun Phrases and the Style of Scientific Discourse." In S.P. Witte, N. Nakadate and R.D. Cherry (eds.), A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on written discourse in the honor of James Kinneavy. Carbondale, IL: SIUP Press.