Week 6
This week, I’m asking you to describe and reflect on writing norms with your academic discipline(s). Please write a short answer that answers the following questions:
What are the writing conventions in your discipline(s)?
What do readers want and what do they take for granted?
What tone or tones are most commonly used? Are other tones acceptable?
What writing options are totally unacceptable in your estimation?
What are examples of really good and really bad writing in your discipline? (Here I mean specific works / titles.) What makes these works particularly good or bad?
If you work within or between multiple disciplines, please answer these questions but also explicitly compare and contrast the disciplines with each other. Are some writing options acceptable in one but not the other?