Internationalizing Writing in the STEM Disciplines

Autor/in	Sharma, Ghanashyam
Titel	Internationalizing Writing in the STEM Disciplines
Quelle	In: Across the Disciplines, 15 (2018) 1, S.26-46 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-8244
Schlagwörter	Global Approach; Writing Instruction; STEM Education; Intercultural Communication; Sociolinguistics; Rhetoric; Interviews; Grounded Theory; Engineering Education; College Faculty; Graduate Students; Scientific and Technical Information; Official Languages; Ideology; Theory Practice Relationship; Writing Attitudes; Writing Across the Curriculum; Misconceptions; Language Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Globales Denken; Schreibunterricht; STEM; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Soziolinguistik; Rhetorik; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ingenieurausbildung; Fakultät; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Office language; Amtssprache; Ideologie; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Missverständnis; Sprachverhalten
Abstract	Given that STEM professionals must regularly engage in transnational and cross-cultural communication, learning to write in their academic disciplines and professions means learning to navigate World Englishes, employ diverse sociolinguistic and rhetorical resources, and negotiate meaning across linguistic and sociocultural borders. Analyzing interviews conducted by using a Grounded Theory method among engineering faculty members and their graduate students at a large public university in the US, this article first discusses a few stated beliefs about language and writing that don't reflect realities about communication in the STEM fields. Drawing on the participants' description of teaching/learning and communication practices in follow-up interviews, the article then offers recommendations to promote the acceptance of complexity and rhetoricity of scientific communication in place of dominant perception that the sciences only use a transparent and universal code of standard English. Further, it recommends specific ways for writing scholars to shift focus from ideology to practice, arguing that doing so can aid research, program, and pedagogy of writing in the disciplines (WID) and writing across the curriculum (WAC), thereby helping promote cross-cultural and transnational communication skills in the STEM fields. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	WAC Clearinghouse. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523. Tel: 970-491-3132; Web site: http://wac.colostate.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01