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Duke Resource

NYTimes article:  Zombie theme

with hard copy for a grade on MONDAY. NO REWRITES.

Here are some science style pointers that this review assignment raises.

right here.

L, current student, suggests this for your viewing pleasure.  Humor as a customer strategy?

And, can parody and music help us re-commit the Kreb Cycle to memory?  Perhaps.  

Finally, this for the post doc in your life.

From Monday a look at the

Relationships approach (1980s) (Petrick and Pfister)

Documents have beginnings, middles, and ends.  

Opening moves: NOTE LINK UPDATED TO A GOOGLE DOC PAGE.

writing an effective opening paragraph. Think exigence. Let's review some opening strategies at this digital page.  Notice that you can include another point in this opening or preview a coming point.   How will we bind all this together for clarity and coherence?

Rough pattern to follow: Your final review is between 10 and 12 paragraphs long:

• Hook/opening
• Ethos paragraph (s) about your LEAD authors for two articles TO BE DISCUSSED ON FRIDAY
• Definition description paragraph (s)
• Critique paragraph (s)
• Look at stats
• Closing paragraph
  • Application
  • Further reading
  • Questions raised
  • HINT:  think about some of the opening strategies.

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For Friday, draft four to five paragraphs:  a beginning (hook emphasis), and four body paragraphs made coherent by the founding technique).  You might have an idea for the end: think policy?

Let's learn a little grammar, painlessly:

Semicolons by "The Oatmeal."

Read this for Friday: we need to practice using  natural language citation.  Hint: you might need this in the beginning portions.... tbd, on Friday).

Today, we start this. We will be done by Halloween. Plan to draft a few paragraphs every other day or so, with some chance in class to ask questions and share with me and others.

Audience/Context/Purpose.  Now, we need to think about this approach, even more so than in the memo assignments.  Memos are very much genre-driven. Relationships approach here, with a nod to the document type. Here is another way to think about audience, with an emphasis on logos, pathos, and ethos.

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Memoir links, for your pleasure:

NAS science memoir series

For pre-meds, read this on shamans and doctors

Plant scientists might like this on trains and photosynthetic bacteria

Memoir-like, James Sylvester Gates interview from On Being.

Will be a memoir eventually.....York and Chaos Theory

Sharks and Eugenie Clark, lots of good quotes here

Finally, this wow book by Noble prize winner John Mather