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.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2024-04-02
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10.1080/10572252.2023.2229398
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