Discipline-Specific Writing Whether you're writing about market trends or Mercedes Benz, play dough or Plato, The Divine Comedy or bovine mammary, fine writing puts your reader at ease and carries him/her forward with your logic.

Clear writing communicates with your field. Fine writing distinguishes you in your field.

Be sure you understand the conventions of writing in your discipline.
Writing in the empirical research fields differs from writing in many of the humanities disciplines.
The best way to learn the conventions of your discipline is to read published articles or books within your discipline.

The following pages outline the conventions of the analytical paper in the style of the humanities and the empirical research report in the natural and social sciences. Follow the links to writing models for business and the math thesis.

Business Writing:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_basicbusletter.html

Writing a Math Thesis:
http://www.math.hmc.edu/seniortheses/tools/resources/index.html
http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~kijoo/thesis.html

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