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Tradition And Adaptations: Writing in the Disciplines
by Dean Ward
Product Group: Book
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (1997-01-17)
ISBN: 1559344601
EAN: 9781559344609
Dewey Decimal #: 808.042
Paperback: 576 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 3AB3-059-7-1207
Condition: VG+
Comments: Clean copy, no markings by previous owners; Covers show very minor shelfwear; Corners and ends of spine lightly bumped; Pages bright and tight. *International Buyers Welcome!* (except for prohibitively heavy items, as noted) - Satisfied customers in over 40 countries! We ship quickly and guarantee satisfaction. Your purchase helps support a U. Chicago student
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Product Description
Designed for composition courses that focus on writing across the curriculum, Tradition and Adaptation helps students master the kinds of writing required in different disciplines, while also encouraging them to move across traditional boundaries in order to best meet each assignment’s goals.
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A Balanced Approach
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-07-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you're looking for a writing text to put several disciplines into perspective, Ward's is a good one. These are thorny issues he tackles: how writing in the social sciences differs from humanities writing; why natural scientists write the way they do; the philosophical underpinnings of each discipline that show up in its writing. While using Tradition and Adaptation to teach social science writing, I have noticed that my students appreciate Ward's multi-discipline approach to writing across the curriculum. To explain why social scientists use an IMRAD format in their papers, for instance, it helps to understand how their assumptions about their work differ from the assumptions of, say, natural scientists. This kind of understanding allows students to move beyond the usual English department literary style and fully into the style of their own disciplines. This is, of course, a specialized text, with a limited audience, namely those interested in exploring writing styles in different academic disciplines. But for that limited audience, Ward's book perfoms well.
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