Hello to ENGL390, science writing, for SPRING 2025
Hello,
This class journal is our primary lecture/notes/slides aka a text for our class. I will post on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays throughout the semester. We work off the posted material during our online sessions.
We wiill try this for Friday in a fuller way. As you experienced on Monday, we worked off the ELMS class announcement.
I am looking forward to this class (teaching Terps since 1987). Let's go.
Marybeth Shea
Happy Friday to all.
We will chat about how to read/use this website as our primary class text and "notes" about what is important.
For Monday, please complete an introductory slide in this Google Presentation set. You have editor permissions. You also should continue your self exploration of AI and how you -- a college student in upper division courses -- will use this resource ethically. Over the weekend, please think about you can prompt an AI -- including Google search -- to gather reliable information to serve your learning needs.
For example, I searched this morning on "Ailanthus trees"; then, I revised my noun-subject prompt to this: "responsible arboriculture in removing Ailanthus in a mid Atlantic state winter."; here is this search.
Two suggestions for you-->
- Pick a subject you know and enjoy (knitting with wool, playing chromatic scales, training for 1/2 marathon, which mid price jazz-ready bass is good for intermediate player, teaching a cat to use a toilet, what dinosaur fossils are on the fall line in PG and Montgomery counties...)
- Pick a subject that you need to learning in this semester (ways to solve fluid mechanics problems correctly, determining types of microbes in soils by electron potential ladders, applying to osteopathic medical schools compared to regular medical schools, etc.)
Use Google search and pay attention to the questions portion that is returned. That is a visible part of newer AI examples in this search algorithm.
Then use the arena of Wednesday to ask your questions. No busy work here. I trust you to do this and learn on your own. We will chat on Monday about this experience, though. If you are adept at AI work and care to do more, you could try to develop a visual for yourself. I cannot always find the free, open access image generators and experiment on this AI assist these days. Why? I work in science visualization.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037020305304
Preview of next week: slides sets about Aristotle/classical rhetoric frames on thinking and writing. Also, you could visit Eli Review and view the several student-centered videos. More on this platform next week. We do not subscribe until AFTER add/drop.
Enjoy your weekend. Perhaps ask the TerpAi, what is happening on campus you may like to attend.
