From the article: "If English studies continues to identify itself as a field committed to making meaning, it needs to develop a stronger vocabulary that encourages productive interdisciplinary interactions--interactions in which words and actions produce further debates and considerations. Developing literacy among disciplines through a commitment to know, learn, and study other discourses, English studies can strengthen its place within the university and community at large and can thereby add value and integrity to its disciplinary activities, the integrity Bassett and Fish claim English studies loses when it works with other disciplines."