The “Significant Writing Project” I chose was the second essay we wrote in Eng 110. This is using Christina Haas, James Paul Gee, Nair and Nair, and the IMRaD Cheatsheet.

Prompt: Write a six-page paper in which you develop your perspective on the role of the IMRaD paper format in what Gee might call the Discourse of the social and natural sciences.

Despres-Paper 2 working on final draft

Despres 2-Final Draft Paper

Works cited for the material that has been worked on.

• Gee, James Paul. “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction.” The Journal of Education, vol. 171, no. 1, 1989, pp. 5–17. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42743865.
• Gee, James Paul. “Chapter Three: Building Tasks.” An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, Routledge, 2014, pp. 30–43.
• Haas, Christina. “Learning to Read Biology: One Student’s Rhetorical Development in College.” Written Communication, vol. 11, ser. 1, Jan. 1994, pp. 43–84. 1.
• Nair, P. K. R. Nair, V. D. “Chapter 2: Organization of a Research Paper: The IMRAD Format.” Scientific Writing and Communication in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 13–25.