Interdisciplinarity and writer identity: Students’ views and experiences

This study explores disciplinary affiliation as part of writer identity in an interdisciplinary field by focusing on student writers’ own views and experiences of writing a master’s thesis in an interdisciplinary master’s programme. In contrast to previous work using text analysis and discourse-based interviews with writers, here writer identity is approached from the students’ perspective only. As a consequence, some of the reported aspects of writer identity may not have a visible presence in students’ texts. They are nevertheless important since they help shape the (inter) disciplinary boundaries of student