The
‘undisciplined’ gropings of student prose were of
course far from the research ideal held up by the disciplines.
As faculty never tired of pointing out, student papers were
replete with ignorance and error of all sorts, which could seemingly
never be entirely eradicated. Because faculty tended to regard
poor writing as evidence of poor thinking, not as evidence of
a student’s incomplete assimilation into a disciplinary
community, faculty sensed that the discipline’s ‘store
of knowledge,’ acquired at great sacrifice was ‘tarnished’
by poor writing (Russell, pg 74).”
-Writing in the Academic Disciplines 1870-1990
"not as evidence of a student's incomplete assimilation
into a disciplinary community,"
This is an attempt to connect undergraduate research with the
real world.
What are the discussions happening?
There are discussions about everything. You just have to find
the right group.
Who is having them?
Students,
Faculty
& Staff, Government,
Corporations, Nonprofit
Organizations -Possibly everyone but you. But you can get
involved.
Where are they having them?
Magazines
& Scholarly Journals, Websites,
Think
Tanks, Societies
How do they connect to my life?
These “discussions” that are happening are one
sided unless someone gets involved. You don’t have to
take the “devil’s advocate position” but it
doesn’t hurt to question an organization and help them
by offering other ideas.
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