Abstract | This paper examines how attributes such as criticality, evidence and impersonality are conceptualised in nursing and midwifery and the role these conceptualisations play in discipline-specific academic writing. In this paper attributes are taken to mean existing or desired features of disciplinary texts. The paper draws on data from a two-year study on academic writing in these disciplines which looked at the nature and dynamics of discipline-specific academic writing in two undergraduate programmes at a UK university. The paper aims to contribute to recent theoretical and pedagogic debates on the specificity of writing in the disciplines. It argues that in attending to the significant relationship between context-sensitive attributes and disciplinary academic writing important perspectives can be gained. |
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