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Discipline-EN

Discipline, school subject, field:

• the school subject is the discipline in its pre-higher education form.
• the discipline is the scholarly/university discipline of reference. There are frequently debates between practitioners and professors in higher education about the “Ivory Tower” nature of university knowledge or disciplines.

Composition theorists have expressed little interest in the relationship between scholarly knowledge and school subjects. On the other hand, they have pursued vigorously the links between writing in first-year courses, writing in the disciplines, the role of writing in the construction and appropriation of expert knowledge, the possibility or not of “transferring” writing knowledge from general learning to writing knowledge in a disciplinary context, and the status of the student with respect to the “community” of experts in a discipline (see discourse community.”)

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