Hyland Discussion

Discussion Post #13

Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)

While reading the summery of of Hyland’s Book I felt less engaged with the text than I would be with the book itself. I think the reason for this is that a summery is a gathering of what the interpreter thinks is important and worth while to know, in contrast to me reading and deciding what is important to know. From looking at the chart provided in the summery I noticed that the disciplines that dealt more with tangible problems compared to those that dealt with theoretical problems cited less often. I believe this is the case because the theoretical disciplines are less absolute and is built on fifty through what is useful and working to try and continuously improve.

A similarity between our work and the work of these different disciplines is that both of our work is built off the knowledge of others that have work in the same discipline. We continue the work that was laid down before us, and in some cases we undo some of it to improve upon it. The main difference is that the work of these disciplines are highly specialized and require a lexis that is not abundantly known by outsiders. These lexicons create tighter communities and father the knowledge gained by these disciplines.

Mechanical engineering is a discipline that values the outcome and sound working mechanics. This discipline conducts research mostly primarily, which is how they can determine if the mechanics work. If I were to guide student in writing a research paper for this discipline I would first learn mechanical engineering. Beyond that the general guidelines to writing a research paper is still the same except there is far more field work to be done along with mechanical know how to apply.