Week 12: one-article review work ABT and selective counting
From the Reading Grid posted last week, here are two elements we focus on today (screen clips/open in new tab):
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Let's look at the ABT statement you will need to do by Friday. Here are links to resourses you need to understand how to do these statements. (from the Reading Grid clips):
TaDAH! , in Andrew Revkin’s words (channeling Randy Olson, Trey Parker, and Aristotle).
Next focus from the Reading Grid is the power of selective counting:
Recall the “power of three, four, or seven” of George Miller (1956) BUT also look at this 2012 Science Daily summary of “four is magical” ; bottom line?
Three or four, plus perhaps subclusters of related ideas for a total of seven is a good strategy for audience cognition and memory.
Marybeth Shea
Wednesday! We talk in detail about ABT statements. This slide set includes ABT statements guided by Randy Olson himself with MS and PhD students in environmental science. Look at the complexity and technical detail! At the end of the slide set is a Google doc where you can see me guide medical humanities students into writing ABT statements.
You will use and ABT statement or two in Friday night's Writing Task, prompt opened this afternoon. By popular request I should bold and use large point size.
Friday night 11.45PM (grace halo period until about 11AM Saturday), post an Eli Review Writing Task. (Link updated at 3.41 Wednesday AND on your ELMS Calendar).
Monday night 11.45PM, post your Eli Review Review Task.
BE ON TIME FOR EACH OTHER, please.
Have five or so points? You can think also of dividing into a point used in your intro and/or appoint used to close.
Here are seven ways+examples to open a document. And, the way you close an article can borrow from these openings (based on the now defunct Cain Technical Writing E-Text project formerly hosted at Rice University.
Now, I want to look at how IMRAD and ABT work together. And yes, we hear/see from Randy Olson again. Two qualities to contrast are:
- Narrative structure, ABT, follows a horizontal axis arrow (times arrow, actually)
- Rational->irrational structure -- head, heart, guts, gonads/sex organs-- follows a vertical axis, where the action is from top down.
Five minutes, with an Australian scientist/interview:
Humanizing science! Emotion and humor in just the right proportion and timing. Aristotle would call this kairos.
Marybeth Shea
Happy Friday and your protected time to manage your work! I am available online today between 9-9:50, 10-10:50 and 11-11:50. Here is your GoogleMeet code (same for all Fridays this semester).
Here is one follow-up on Randy Olson's work that connects IMRAD structure with ABT narrative frames on communication. This 67-page PDF of a slide set features a few central images that I have captured in a working slide set (six Google slides for now to help you with your work this weekend) for us to use next week. We need to deepen our understanding of ABT as a structure to guide critical thinking and careful, concise writing.
Task reminders:
Friday night 11.45PM (grace halo period until about 11AM Saturday), post an Eli Review Writing Task. (Link updated at 3.41 Wednesday AND on your ELMS Calendar).
Monday night 11.45PM, post your Eli Review Review Task.
Keishai Bahr, PhD, www.bahrlab.com
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