Group Discussion: Alternative Energy Options and HW questions.
Group Exercise/Discussion: Understanding the intended audience in position papers from two summary exerts: Writing for the Intended Audience
Responding Questions:
- What would be the main idea of each summary?
- What audience might the writer(s) be responding to in Summary 1, and in Summary 2?
- What type of source(s) the authors use to support the man idea of their summary?
- What type of word choice and style the writers use in the summaries, and how does the language differ?
- What type of voice does the text employ? Passive voice construction usually implies a focus on what was done, whereas an active voice emphasizes the doer of the action.
Reading abstracts for relevance using rhetorical situations in science writing:
Group/Class Exercise: IMRAD Content Structure for Research Papers and Abstracts_Fall2018
Best practices for analyzing research:
The Critique Exercise http://www.stevendkrause.com/tprw/Chapter%207.pdf
The WAC Clearinghouse wac.colostate.edu/The Centrality of Style: The Critique Exercise.
Thesis workshop: http://www.stevendkrause.com/tprw/Chapter%205.pdf:
The WAC Clearinghouse wac.colostate.edu/The Centrality of Style: The Working Thesis Exercise.
