Writing is a process as well as a product. Writing is a learning activity as well as a communications activity. Writing helps students learn the content of a field.
Writing helps students learn the communication patterns within a discourse community.
Students learn to write well by writing in localized contexts and by receiving responses from writers within those contexts. Premises of Writing in the Disciplines Writing is a practice. Writing expectations and performances are discipline specific. Much of what an accomplished writer knows about writing remains tacit. Tacit knowledge is communicated through apprenticeship.