Week 1: Fall 2024 Science Writing
Day 1 (Monday but I posted on Saturday, August 24).
We will primarily use this blog platform as our class text. I will post entries as a combination of what to read and what we spoke about in class. You can also think of this space as notes from class discussion.
I will use ELMS for student email as well as the ELMS calendar to prompt you on assignments.
Ideas we will discuss this first week include:
- critical thinking frames (audience, context, purpose)
- writing craft skills and choices (arrangement, style, word choices, formality, complexity, etc.)
- audience-centered writing (what do your readers need from you)
- strategic redundancy (technical and professional writing differs from literary writing)
- peer revision / drafting (how we build a learning community here)
- labor grading (differs from how you experience grading in your k-16 progress)
Tools will we use include
- GoogleMeet, compared to Zoom
- Squarespace and this class journal
- Eli Review (you will buy a subscription that is about 25 dollars; Not until week 2)
- Padlet--sample padlet on using baseball in writing classes-->
More on Wednesday. Most Fridays, I offer a little lesson on science visualization. Enjoy this clip from Twitter->
Find her Science Pusheen series here. Hope this scicomm charm makes you happier. Did you find your field? Or one of the classes you are now taking represented here?
Marybeth Shea
Wednesday
Hello to day two. Here is what is up:
- Knit back to Monday's post and reflect together on the bulleted items
- Think about two important frames for teaching and writing
- Metaphors and concrete language
- Visuals (in concrete language) and in document design
- Visuals (Mb Google this morning searched on "concrete language")
- Document design
- Headings, subheadings
- tables
- bullets (signals that items are more or less equal --> see numbers below)
- numbers (sigals order or importance or chronology)
Here are some short Google Presentation sets (Mb-genrated) that also show how this course works:
- Science writing (eight slides that rely on quotes)
- Logos, pathos, ethos (nine slides)
- Audience, context, purpose (set 1, thirteen slides)
Marybeth Shea
We will knit up from Monday and look at:
- kawaii
- Eli Review
- preview that you should reflect on what you want to learn in this class, placing the paragraph or two into Portfolium