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Introducing Students to Disciplinary Genres: The Role of the General Composition Course
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Linton, Patricia Madigan, Robert Frank Johnson, Susan |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Abstract | Recent discussions of disciplinary writing have addressed the possibility that disciplinary genres cannot be taught. In particular, they have considered the proposition that if we understand disciplinary writing as a product of situated cognition, then it cannot be taught effectively by English faculty as part of a composition curriculum. David Russell, drawing on Vygotsky and Dewey, has argued this point forcefully: [Because writing is] a matter of learning to participate in some historically situated human activity that requires some kind(s) of writing, it cannot be leamed apart from the problems, the habits, the activities-the subject matter-of some group that found the need to write in that way to solve a problem or carry on its activities. (194) Russell recognizes that one logical consequence of this way of understanding writing might be " to drop the abstraction (and perhaps the institution) of general composition courses in higher education " (195). Furthermore, it may be the case that even within the disciplines, skill in writing can be learned (as one component of apprenticeship) but not taught. Carol Berkenkotter and Thomas N. Huckin have observed that " generally the enculturation into the practices of disciplinary communities is 'picked up' in the local milieu of the culture rather than being explicitly taught " (485-M). They focus attention on the question of when this initiation into disciplinary practices actually occurs, suggesting that what undergraduate students acquire are pedagogical genres rather than disciplinary discourse models. In other words, most undergraduate students acquire transitional genres which share some of |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
