Rachel Riedner facilitated a workshop at the DIT Focas Institute

Professor Rachel Riedner, Executive Director of the University Writing Program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC and her research partner Maria Jose-Gonzolez facilitated a workshop at the DIT Focas Institute on the 16th of October. The workshop, entitled "Writing Practices of your Discipline", focused on understanding 'genres' of writing, and the stylistic conventions, governed by shared purpose, of genres such as Abstracts, Posters, Grant Proposals, and Research Papers. In refining conventions, researchers can demonstrate a connectivity and conversibility with other researchers in their disciplinary field, in addition to signaling an expertise. In the workshop, Professor Riedner helped participants to identify and to master common genres of their disciplinary field using examples provided by the participants.