Why Writing Works: Disciplinary Approaches to Composing Texts
Why Writing Works: Disciplinary Approaches to Composing Texts is an open-access, online textbook resource operating under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This text was created by professors at Southwest Minnesota State University for their second-year writing class called "Writing in the Professions," which introduces students to writing in their disciplines. This class teaches students about writing in their academic field.
Section 1: Introduction to Writing in Professions lays out aspects of writing that are fairly universal across disciplines.
Section 2: Disciplinary Perspectives discusses aspects of writing that are specific to particular disciplines. The writing, reading, research, and documentation disciplinary perspective sections are also found under Sections, listed alphabetically by discipline. Related videos and annotated writing examples are linked on discipline-specific pages.
