摘要：This study examines the intellectual consequences of writing about data in relation to disciplinary concepts. Drawing on data from written assignments and surveys completed by students, as well as course documents and interviews with an instructor and TAs, this study reveals that the students in varying ways and to varying degrees came to see language use and language users in more disciplinarily sophisticated ways and to discard stereotyping, discriminatory, or stigmatizing beliefs they might have held. The students also to varying degrees came to understand the nature of linguistic data and methods. Further, there were varying interactions between the experience with data and the exposure to disciplinary concepts, based on prior academic and non-academic experiences, as well as individual dispositions toward learning. Findings suggest that students learning to select, represent, and analyze data in answering disciplinary questions and arguing for disciplinary conclusions in their writing are significant parts of their development as academic writers.
