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writing in the disciplines

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Writing in the Disciplines (WID) teaches students how to write acceptably in their respective disciplines. Writing in the Disciplines classes teach students to learn to write texts that they will apply in their scholarly and professional lives. Although WID and WAC are correlated, WID emphasizes disciplinary orientation. The students’ participation in their majors enlists the students in discourse communities, which are social groups that communicate, at least in part, via written texts and share common goals, values, and writing standards. These writing standards include but are not limited to specialized vocabularies and particular genres.2 The goal of WID is to allow students to demonstrate writing skills within the genres expected in academic and professional discourse communities.

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Writing in the Disciplines (WID) is an approach to teaching students how to write acceptably in their respective disciplines. Writing in the Disciplines classes teach students to learn to write texts that they will apply in their scholarly and professional lives. WID engages the students' abilities to produce, process, and reflect sophisticated texts that they will apply in their scholarly and professional lives. Although WID and WAC are correlated, WID emphasizes disciplinary orientation. By using WID, students will participate in the disciplines that interest them. Their participation enlists them in discourse communities, which are social groups that communicate, at least in part, via written texts and share common goals, values, and writing standards. These writing standards include but are not limited to specialized vocabularies and particular genres.”[2 As a result, they will demonstrate writing skills within the genres expected in academic and professional discourse communities.

The controversy surrounding WID is who holds responsibility for teaching WID courses. The different methods for teaching WID classes in universities are the following: 1) The English department faculty teaches the writing courses for various disciplines. 2) The English department and other disciplines team teach writing courses. 3) Individual faculty of respective disciplines teach . Here a concluding sentence could be added.

Plans:

1) WID, therefore, serves two primary goals: 1) helping students to write in the fashion expected of professionals in their chosen fields, and 2) helping students to think like professionals via teaching them to express themselves like professionals. This line could possibly to be deleted as it is not cited and replaced with goals mentioned in other sources.

2) Add in a sentence or two about discourse communities and include the sources that I collected.

Rough Draft:

Add a beginning sentence to this: Something something something, which is why we need discourse communities. Then next sentence: below

"Discourse communities are social groups that communicate, at least in part, via written texts and share common goals, values, and writing standards. These writing standards include but are not limited to specialized vocabularies and particular genres.”[2]"

Final sentence perhaps?

This sentence would appear in the introduction that August is writing.