MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

 Wednesday.  How is your grid work going?  This table helps you read and pre-write at the same time.  At the very least by now, you need to have formed ideas on-->

• Possible opening strategy or combination of the seven opening moves
• Working list of key terms to be defined early in your document
• List of three-five points you might include in the "fat" portion of the lemon shape (pear, too)
• ABT statement
  • Hey, I just met you AND this is crazy. BUT here's my number. [Therefore] call me maybe.

Connecting to earlier lessons in semester-->

• The leaf ends of the lemon and the pear are a cognitive wedge shape (seriously!)
• Definitions are part of an audience-friendly document opening (stasis 2!)
• Stasis 3 of causal analysis is a frame for your three or four take-aways in the middle of the fruit shape
• Establishing trust for the reader (ethos) is accomplished by describing briefly the disciplinary and institutional expertise of the first author (like you did for Davis, Hocking or Moore in earlier assignments).

Let's gather some language helpers aka free sentences/phrases for you to use within the structure give-->

Before we look at Mazela's field study, let's review fives types of nitrogen speciation in soil water systems. 

These brief, working definitions of speciation states set the stage for Mazela's work on ammonia fixation in water systems.  I have selected four take-aways from this study. The first point concerns ammonia deposition rates in wet, winter conditions. 

In addition to the field method described here, a second method innovation is worth our attention.  Mazela combines quantitative PCR to identify fungal community assemblages, with speciation state re N availability.

--- New discipline

A third point useful for clinical trials concerns Patel's discussion of biomarkers.

Finally, immunologists will be particularly intrigued by the array of IGG markers seen in the control patient group.  I recommend close reading of that section though most clinical providers will be more focused on the IGG markers that suggest specific autoimmune diseases. 

What we are working with here are two craft decisions:  metadiscourse and counting out.

More language helpers at the Manchester University Academic Phrasebank. I will post useful clips from this resource and additional guidance on critiquing your article directly, including the states/numerical analysis comment. If you want a preview, go to this section (discussion your article's findings).

Reading like a writer. 

This is the main message of the reading grid I gave you. My supporting messages in support of this cognitive frame include: 

• counting out helps you identify information worth sharing
• the quality and trustworthiness of this information is supported by
  • the ethos of your first author*
  • the rigor of the analysis -- including a stats/numerical analysis -- done by the researchers
• your thought on what this research paper means for
  • the discipline -- how should research go forward, given this knowledge refinement in the line of inquiry?
  • the world -- applications?  Uses?  Remember that science and technology serves humanity whether we 
    • expand basic knowledge (like understanding black holes) or
    • build a tool for human flourishing

How are your three points coming along? This little video song will help you remember the magic of three. This may help you remember how important counting out is to cognition and memory. The Wikipedia entry about this series is informative. Wow. She linked to Wikipedia. What kind of source is that? 

*SAMPLE TEXT (MENTOR!) Kaspari earned a PhD in pharmacognition (1981) from the University of Illinois.  She leads an interdisciplinary team at Wexler Institute of Plant Based Technology, which is part of the University of California at Berkeley Plant Science Department.

Are you behind?  Here is a bouquet of files that we discussed earlier but can help you catch up cognitively and compositionally.

THINKING and READING as a Writer

1. Stasis theory and the IMRAD article (MbS Google doc)
2. Reading Grid (MbS Google doc with larger table for YOU)
3. Flow chart for lemon+pear shape of YOUR article revew

COMPOSITION CRAFT (your work as a Writer)

1. Seven opening + closing strategies
2. ABT statements (Google doc with important links to examples)