Chapter 4 Reflection Questions
These questions are meant to get you started. You need not follow them, for your brief post about this chapter, but if you need a place to begin, here are some ideas….
1.. On page 87, Zwiers provides an excellent chart, with the steps of scientific inquiry and the related language for each step. What are some of the “steps” in your own discipline, and what is the language you might use?
2. What subregisters of academic language did you excel in in your own education, and why? Where did you struggle, and what strategies would have supported your learning?
3. What are some general academic terms and phrases used across content areas? Does your discipline share meaning with another discipline for particular academic terms and phrases? Where, in your discipline, is there language that might mean something else outside of <home ec> or <algebra> or <theatre>?