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Role of Genre« Role of Contexts | Practice and Response Home | Effective Feedback » Ryan Skinnell of California State University, Northridge suggests Amy Devitt’s Writing Genres (especially chapters 2, 3, and 7) as useful in understanding how you as a biologist can help student write for biology. Deviit discusses how genres perform functions within disciplines, something your students need to understand, along with the concept of audience, if they are to write well within biological genres of writing. Neal Lerner of MIT suggests an article about writing in the sciences, namely Carolyn W. Key’s “Revitalizing Instruction in Scientific Genres: Connecting Knowledge Production with Writing to Learn in Science” in Science Education 83 (1999): 115–30, which, as he writes, “focuses particularly on the importance of having students write professional tasks (lab reports, mini reviews, etc.) so that they begin to learn to assume the professional identities of scientists.” by Valerie Balester, July 2006 « Role of Contexts | Practice and Response Home | Effective Feedback » |