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Writing in the Research University - A Darwinian Study of WID with Cases from Civil Engineering (Hardcover)
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Writing in the Research University - A Darwinian Study of WID with Cases from Civil Engineering (Hardcover)
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How do engineers learn to think and write like engineers? How do
art historians learn to think and write like art historians? How do
journalists or biologists learn to think and write like the
professionals that they become? Do we learn to think and write
primarily by enculturation-or can we be taught how to write in
various disciplines? If anything can be taught, what practices
stand out as best practices? Needed to address these questions is a
cohesive theory of writing-in-the-disciplines (WID), one that
accounts for both discipline-specific features of writing and
features that cut across many disciplines. To that end, this book
re-examines contemporary sociohistoric theories of writing from an
evolutionary perspective. An evolutionary perspective of WID
suggests that disciplines not only change, but they evolve much
like species do, via a dual process of variation and selection in
forums of competition. An evolutionary perspective puts a spotlight
on what endures as well as what changes in the complexes of
academic arguments. Needed as well are more situated studies of
writing, particularly on the department level: situated studies in
which the human organism is observed functioning in its
disciplinary environment. This book examines just one
discipline-civil engineering-via a series of interrelated case
studies of undergraduates, graduate students, tutors, faculty, and
alumni, not practicing engineers in industry.
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