Each student is inclined to a certain academic discipline where the individual's interests are catered. Everyone aims to expand their knowledge in the specific area of study they chose whether it may be Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Sciences etc. and as part of reaching this aim disciplinary writing was brought into the table to widen the scope of knowledge in each discipline through research works.
But what is Writing in the discipline anyway ? Is it a writing activity where you are timed, given with a checklist what to do? Would somebody spank, slap or give us a disciplinary action whenever we we write the wrong thing or in we write in a wrong way? Or putting those two together?
Definitely no, writing in the discipline is still a good avenue for us who put our heart on writing to pen down what we know and discovered but in a more objective, concise and substance-focused manner.
Writing in the discipline is with no difference in other academic writing outputs in structure. It follows a step by step writing process with accordance to the writing rules and guidelines. It is an organized formal writing where critical thinking, proper use of language, parallelism, coherence are applied like any writing activity. The characteristic which made writing in the discipline different form others is it focuses on a certain area of study. For example in our discipline as English majors we are opt to produce outputs in accord with our field. It is merely about linguistics, literature and its application to human life in a broader sense.This would give us a grasp of the field we are starting to engage with.
Writing in the discipline may be restricted in many ways in the sense that you would present a well-examined information not an opinionated one. Thus, it would hinder us to fully express our own thoughts on it but advantageously it would open our minds to a more rational way of thinking and assessing things.
Written outputs of writing in the discipline differs depending on the discipline we are into.Individuals who are into Business field would write about how Online Publishing improves market sales while we English majors may write about Online Publishing's impact to printed journalism. Bearing the fact that disciplines are inter-related to each other, writing in the discipline could have the same founding topic but it varies gradually as it stretches out to life's application.
Since academic disciplines are highly structured and readily available to researchers ,writing in the discipline introduces us to the world of research and it places us to an arena where we can engage with the latest trends and discoveries in the field of research.
Sometimes I think that disciplinary writing may be considered an activity that will imprisoned us to a smaller scope of learning but later i realized it gives us an opportunity to widen our knowledge and understanding in a narrowed area of study so that we can have a greater control on that field and we could use that as an effective tool in addressing the problems concerning our discipline.
For me, as English major writing in the discipline is making use of writing skills in improving our discipline and opening more doors of knowledge that will make us appreciate more the essence of our discipline in the society and in our day to day living.
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