I worked in a workplace in a manufacturing background that was very technical based and involved a variety of genres and works that may have overlapped or coincided with one and another. I think that I would characterize the works undertaken in the work place to be monodisciplinary. I felt like that there were a slew of things that people worked on from generally the same discipline, sometimes varying, and from there the works may have sometimes collaborated and integrated with others. For instance you may have a quality report which may lead to a reflection a weekly report and from there the report could be sent out through an email chain. Some of these forms of work that you will see in this environment could be things like reports and research presentations to emails and notes. From a standpoint of my peers that I worked with I saw that there was good mix of people who were in my specific discipline and others who were still within the engineering discipline but not necessarily in my specific discipline. Most of my direct co-workers were of the same discipline, but other people who I did not interact with like people on the floor, HR, people working in a different division than the one I worked at can from different disciplines. I feel like in this environment though there were some variation of disciplines I experienced, overall I was surrounded by mainly one discipline based working environment. After graduating I see myself doing similar work to what I have done in my previous co-ops like reports, emails, and presentations. Hopefully I’ll also have the opportunity to also do some research journals/reports that I can work on. I see myself working with this genres because they are all necessary to this line of work and will enable me to the type of work that I would like to do. So far I’ve experienced a monodisciplinary work environment, but I hope to have experience working within places where multiple disciplines overlap and in some cases integrate with each other. I find that there are certain values in experiencing something like that.
