Phew! Sometime reading in a different discipline is a real challenge! I found the article very interesting. It seems as if the article is suggesting that we teach our students to write within our own discipline within the context of understanding that we are writing within a different genre. To a large extent, it suggests that we need to teach writing as writing is taught in a writing or literature course. To approach writing of a science paper as an exercise in understanding genre: (What is the purpose, who is the audience, etc.), rather than jumping in with "this is how it is done". This allows students to have an abstracted, and intentional, way of approaching a writing project...no matter the genre. It also helps if we all teach writing with a common language. As I said at the beginning though, reading in a different discipline is a real challenge, and learning to teach my students to write with this approach would also be a challenge. I feel like I need to go back and take WR121 to learn this (foreign) language of writing! As usual, I always feel that there is not enough time in my class to do this. But maybe there is?