The course provides a core of skills requisite for doing academic research. We will examine research question formulation, data gathering within the scholarly disciplines, the value of interdisciplinary studies, library research methods both traditional and electronic, and the use of primary and secondary resources; good writing and use of statistical techniques in ethical presentation will culminate the experience.
Draft of presentation at MLA convention, 1982. Refers to and summarizes Bazerman's 1981 article. Then relates those findings to what student writers need to know in writing in discplines: e.g., students writing in these disciplines need to understand these rhetorical moves in order to make the moves themselves. Students also need to see how writing in a discipline reflects thinking in that discipline; how writing is problem solving; how controlling one's own writing process relates to the kind of writing one produces.