Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Online Discussion of the Beaufort Excerpt

Beaufort identifies five "knowledge domains" that a writer relies upon when writing a specific text for a particular discourse community. In your experience as a Writing Center tutor, which of the five domains do you think the students you work with most frequently struggle with? In other words, which of the five kinds of knowledge of a particular assignment do they usually lack?

Please answer in a paragraph (or more). You may wish to describe an example from recent tutoring experiences.