Navigating Genres in Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Doctoral Programs

Technical Communication Quarterly Apr 2024

Navigating Genres in Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Doctoral Programs

Sara Doody McGill University

Abstract

This article explores how doctoral writers in interdisciplinary life sciences programs navigate genre-ing activities across multiple disciplines. In interdisciplinary environments, approaches to doing and teaching writing may benefit from a reimagining, particularly as findings suggest that writing at interdisciplinary boundaries is unsuited to apprenticeship models of pedagogy. I argue that meta-genre is a productive way of engaging with the destabilization of existing knowledge in technical communication in interdisciplinary spaces and of fostering interdisciplinary writing knowledge.

Journal: Technical Communication Quarterly
Published: 2024-04-02
DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2229398
Open Access: Closed
Topics: graduate education

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