Lab notes as disciplinary literacy: Developing an integrated, genre-based writing curriculum in a first-year engineering physics program.

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In this program profile, we describe the development of an integrated, genre-based writing curriculum in first-year engineering physics at a technical university in Sweden. The curriculum aimed at supporting undergraduate students develop disciplinary literacy and an understanding of the exigencies that different scientific genres fulfill, with a central focus on laboratory notes. We explain how we implemented the approach of integrated genre-based pedagogy, how we based our curriculum design on research foregrounding the lab note genre as both rhetorical action and disciplinary knowledge construction, and how we evaluated the first run of the program. Throughout, we provide examples of materials and activities for readers who wish to replicate our approach in undergraduate science programs.