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I liked this week’s readings a lot. It made me think of a lot of concepts of writing in the discipline and outside of the discipline. What I appreciated the most was Clark’s piece, where he draws a difference between writing outside of the discipline, he mentioned “writing in the discipline is the difference between knowledge and knowing, relatively static content knowledge versus disciplines as active ways of knowing.” (387). This concept reminded me of students’ learning in academia and during their service-learning/internship. Being a student I gained knowledge on how to create content, write for the audience, the importance of rhetoric in a technical context, etc., while my internship provided me an opportunity to practice the knowledge I gained in academia. In my case, I can say writing serves as a testing tool of my learning (McLeod et all. 579). As McLeod & Maimon mentioned, “the audience is public, sometimes distant, and the purpose is to explain something to that audience or convey information, to model the sort of professional writing tasks students will have outside the academy.”(579) I realize every day what that means to write for the audience. For each content, I create for the website I need to analyze what the audience needs are. What resonated with me in Nieusma and Blue’s “Engineering and War,” article is “engineers are actually writing about other writing.” (69) To me, this can address Hannah’s prompt “open up a discussion of what engineering is and ought to be” (p. 61). Engineers should shift from writer-centered to reader-centered content creators.