Designs for Disciplines : An Introduction to Academic Writing

This is a textbook for college and university classes in discipline-based composition.

Grounded in contemporary genre theory, this text provides practical ideas about how to develop a sophisticated research paper.

It respectfully addresses undergraduate students as apprentice scholars, thus departing from journalistic approaches to composition.Designs for Disciplines contains ample instructional commentary, and is also a reader.

In most cases, discussion material in each chapter is supplemented by a selection of sample essays.