ENGL 299 C: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Natural Sciences

Spring 2020
Meeting:
TTh 12:00pm - 1:20pm / MGH 076
SLN:
13865
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
NEW UNLINKED COURSE: ENGL 299C OFFERS "C" OR "W" CREDIT WITH A FOCUS ON WRITING FOR THE NATURAL SCIENCES. (ENGL 299C CAN COUNT TOWARD AN ENGLISH MAJOR IF HAVE NOT YET TAKEN 15 CREDITS AT THE 200-LEVEL.) EMAIL: IWPENGL@UW.EDU WITH ANY QUESTIONS.
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

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This writing seminar explores how science moves through the lives and personal stories of those who engage it while giving students with interests across the diverse but interconnected disciplines of the natural sciences a space to pursue topics of personal interest. Through analysis and composition of a variety of texts, the course offers a path toward becoming authoritative participants in scientific discourse while simultaneously recognizing ways that values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and their related institutions. The assignments and coursework are means by which students can both interrogate and confirm the values of the science they want to pursue.

In this course we will work with a variety of texts, including your own and your classmates’ writing as you move through cycles of reading, discussion, reflective and formal writing, peer review, conferencing, revision, and intensive instructor interaction and feedback. Assessment of major assignments will involve collaboration and peer review between students as well as instructor comments.

Catalog Description:
Offers writing opportunities based on material from an affiliated lecture course or discipline in the natural sciences. Students strengthen writing practices relevant to course or discipline through drafting, peer reviewing, conferencing, and revising. Concurrent registration in the affiliated lecture course is required, as appropriate. Offered: AWSp.
GE Requirements Met:
English Composition (C)
Writing (W)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
December 8, 2024 - 10:35 pm