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Professors in other disciplines have remarked that they can
usually tell which students have taken a lab course that
stressed report writing because those students write better
papers in the non-science class. We think this is because
the thought process I outlined above is valid for research
papers in other fields, except the student is not performing
the work itself; rather, they are reading about the work of
others when they read their bibliographic sources. It is
probably easier for students to tell the story about work
they did themselves, and they learn to do that in their
science courses. Then, when they have to apply the process
to a research paper in the humanities, they have to think
about what the author's purpose was as they read each
bibliographic source. If they can make that transition,
which many do, they can write well in just about any discipline.