Week 9: deepening our skills at complex recommendation documents
Happy Monday to all of us. Did you start your day with a hot beverage? I did. Coffee, with a splash of milk.
Here is a long but worthy Wed UPDATED/INTERACTIVE FOR YOU NOW Q&A/AMA document from pearlier andemic times. Skim to see what colleagues from an earlier semester wondered about at this stage. Craft note: what document type do you think I am linking to? Do you miss the better curation here or have we established a relationship and working pattern so you assume the type and trust me to click? Just little food for thought. Writers? Thinkers, really. ABT = always be thinking.
I have two lessons for you this week. The first concerns a slide set on what a research article, along with some related scientific communication genres are. The second is a resource for you to consider as you approach giving and recieving feedback in this class. Now that you have experienced Eli Review, you are in a better position to reflect on what you are doing.
Research articles, two guides to this highly effective arrangement for reporting hypothesis-driven science. Bonus: We are learning new and efficient approaches to reading science journal articles. Recall that we started this emphasis on reading in Week 1! Looping back and placing this here for your review: General guidance on reading technical literature in one-page Google Doc (Engelhardt and me).
- Selected slides (six in Google presentation) on authorship conventions
- Entire research article slides here (15-16 that focus on IMRAD)
Quick craft lesson: just above on the bullets, why did I spell out "six' but use roman numerals for '15-16'?; also why do I use single quotes in this quick craft lesson? Bonus lesson! ABT also means always be teaching.
Second lesson: let's look through this visual Padlet together. What is a Padlet? Note, the strong horizontal axis of this interactive visual board application means that the resource is best viewed on a laptop.
So, who is interested in adding questions to the Q&A document linked above? TBD in class. Please read, though. Many typical questions are answered for you.
Preview of Wednesday: which Hocking and/or Moore (help, which 'Charles Moore' do we want) articles can you use in the evaluation paragraph? Recall the process for Davis? We need to use formal citation and perhaps a referral link for this evidence as you argue for your preferred hot beverage cup. Coffee tea, hot chocolate, perhaps a hot toddy or other warming drink based on spirits?
Marybeth Shea
Hello. As per class discussion, (also updated on Monday's post, too)-->
Wed UPDATED/INTERACTIVE FOR YOU NOW Q&A/AMA document
Today we will work from Monday's resources. Here are few very specific sources you can consider for both referral link curation in various paragraphs as well as the two formal cited sources need for the evaluation paragraph, where ytou summarize pertinent, authorotative research. Let's start there. Check, are you-->
- Team Paper? If so, then you will need one of Charles Moore's peer reviewed research articles. List here, at his new website. Worth reading around his site, as well as the first one he founded, now more educational, the Algalita Foundation. This is a good read that is more authorativie then Wikipedia articles. However, I start with Wikipedia articles to scope out a topic. Hope you do too.
- Team Styro? If so, you can select paper-versus-styrofoam cup article from the link re Martin Hocking posted on Monday. Hint: this summary, by Hocking, appearing in Science, is a really good one to include as a referral link in this evaluation paragraph.
Now, let's consider a referral link option for the text passages where you remind/summarize for Jane the broad contours of your environmental frame. Again, check your team-->
- Team Styro? You can look for a recent IPCC policy makers report. What is the IPCC? You may also check out the Wikipedia articles, too. BLUF here? This international panel assembles the complex, interdisciplinary, global science re atmospheric change based on fossil fuel consuption. You can refer Jane to a report. CAUTION HER as these PDFs are huge and colorful. Scope out reports, like
- the more recent synthesis reports of the science and/or
- the policymaker summaries of climate status and options
- Team Paper? I suggest that you use one of Moore's web exhbits (either foundation) to craft a referral link regarding ocean plastic. Why? He is the scientist who opened this line of inquiry. His advocacy is deeply rooted in the science. If you select an environmental organization, even the Natural Resources Defense Council (highly scientific in approach), you are still shifing more to advocacy-ethos. We will chat in class. You can think about how cancer advocacy is part of the larger cancer quest by science, policy, and other human systems.
Looking forward to seeing you. Trixie-the-wonder-dog is stable but serious and I appreciate all your care for me about this deeply upsetting turn of Monday.
Marybeth Shea
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BE ON TIME FOR EACH OTHER tonight, with the halo penumbra by 11 AM Saturday. Helps if you email me.
This document posted earlier and discussed on M and W IS HELPFUL. Start here, I think, if you have questions
AMA/Offices Hours in the Sky/AMA
Punctuation lesson of the week --> (open in a new tab to see entire and helpful jpg)
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