Project Three Overview

The Professional/Disciplinary Literacies Project invites students to engage inquiry as a means to discover and communicate new knowledge about their ambitions and professional futures. This project enables students to learn about the literacy practices of a profession or discipline of their choice by looking at textual products as cultural artifacts to understand the textual products of disciplines as cultural and rhetorical. It combines the self-discovery aspect of the Learning Narrative Project with the inquiry process of the Cultural Artifact Project. The Professional/Disciplinary Literacies project invites students to continue asking the questions implicit in the first project (What am I doing here, and what resources do I bring to the project of my education? What do I need, and how do I achieve my goals?), and to put these in relation to discoveries about the literacies of disciplinary and professional cultures. The ultimate goal of this project is not so much to create a report on any given profession’s literacy practices, per se, but to help students to begin to know the professional cultures they hope to join and to use both the information they discover and their processes of inquiry to make informed decisions about their ongoing literacy development.

Example Assignment Sheet

Here is an example Project Three assignment sheet, which is also posted below.