ABSTRACT
Graduate students begin to learn the difficulties of getting to know and speak to their audiences through a mentoring process with their advisors. This socialization process, which occurs slowly and over time, initiates newcomers into a field of cooperative practice. In my study I observed Bouzida being introduced to the complexity of audience issues in the DOMC paper through interactions with Swendsen as Bouzida composed the early drafts of the paper.1 The whole idea behind having Bouzida write the DOMC drafts, according to Swendsen, was to help him learn how to write a scientific paper. An important part of such activity is learning how to address and adapt one’s writing to audiences, which in this case was made more complex by the multidisciplinary audience that was unfamiliar even to Swendsen.
