Week 1 (1/28/14): Introductions, opening paragraphs, writing pod assignments
Homework: exchange introductions within writing pods, bring in description of research using only the 1000 most common words in the English language (use the website below for help)
Week 2 (2/4/14): Share research descriptions in class; go over intros within writing pods
Homework: Read chapter 5, exchange introductions again within writing pods, now focusing on incorporating Ch.5; Bring in problem sentences to work on in class.
Week 3 (2/11/14): Passive voice review (seek and destroy mission)
Homework: Go through entire piece of writing, highlight all passive voice. Read Shimel 15.4 for discussion of prepositional phrases
* trade writing with partner
Week 4 (2/18/14): Prepositional Phrases (seek and destroy mission II) - Shimel 15.4
Homework: “The Science of Scientific Writing” Gopen and Swan 1990, bring in difficult paragraphs
* trade writing with partner
Week 5 (2/25/14): Go over “The Science of Scientific Writing”, work on difficult paragraphs in class
Homework: Make a conceptual diagram of your manuscript/proposal’s main ideas, send ppt slide with conceptual diagram to Jane by Tuesday 3/4/14 at 2pm.
* trade writing with partner
Week 6 3/4/14: Go over conceptual diagrams in class
Homework: Incorporate feedback on conceptual diagrams
* trade writing with partner
Week 7 3/11/14: Dazzling paper titles and scintillating figure captions
Bring to class:
1) Your favorite paper title – look through your library, I am sure there are gems
2) Titles of 2 papers that do not dazzle you
3) 3 versions of a title for a paper or proposal you’re working on in this class – we will work on them together in class
4) Figures and captions you would like some help with
Homework:
* trade writing with partner
Week 8 3/18/14: Spring break, which means more free time to write!
* optional trade writing with partner
Week 9 3/25/14: no class
Homework:
* trade writing with partner
Week 10 4/1/14 : A review of reviews – how to write review papers
Week 11 4/8/14: Writing proposals that get funded
Week 12 4/15/14: Bringing it all together – conclusions and abstracts
Week 13: Split into smaller writing pods for remainder of semester, trade writing project in its entirety with partners in smaller writing groups