Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering (ELS)

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	DUE DATES
1	Intro to 21G.225 / 6
2	Introduction to professional writing	Exercise 1 due
3	Strategy, process & style (1)
4	Strategy, process & style (2) Sentence bounds Coherence Punctuation	Exercise 2 due
5	Writing for the public Quiz 1: Coherence	Exercise 3 due
6	Peer workshop (1) Guidelines for productive peer review	Formal Paper 1: Writing for a General Audience Due
7	E-mail, memos & letters	Formal Paper 1 best draft due
8	Verb form review (1)
9	Verb form review (2)	Formal Paper 1 final draft due
10	Job letters	Exercise 4 due
11	Peer workshop (2) Quiz 2: Verbs	Formal Paper 2: Writing Correspondence due
12	Writing up research (1): Composition of documents	Formal Paper 2 best draft due
13	Writing up research (2): Source use of sources	Memo 1: Progress Report due Consider your progress in 21G.225 / 6 so far this semester. Summarize what have you learned from the topics covered, readings, assignments and feedback. Are any aspects of the work we have done so far unclear or confusing to you? What are your questions, and how can I help you answer them? Formal Paper 2 final draft due
14	Indefinite / definite article review
15	Writing up research (3): Introductory sections	Exercise 5 due
16	Writing up research (4): Proposals, part I
17	Peer workshop (3)	Formal Paper 3: Introducing Material due
18	Writing up research (4): Proposals, part II Quiz 3: Article use
19	Writing up research (5): Results, discussions, & conclusions	Formal Paper 3 best draft due
20	Relative clause review	Memo 2: Data commentary due Write a memo (1–2 pages) that Presents your data in an appropriate, reader-friendly form. Provides an analysis of the data in a commentary. Incorporate some of Caplan’s language of “Hedging, Boosting and Positioning” into Memo 2.
21	Writing up research (6): Publishing & professionalism Quiz 4: Relative clauses	After reading the articles for this session (see the Readings and Homework Preparation section), record any questions that arise about professional goals and barriers to those goals. These questions will frame our class discussion.
22	Conference papers & poster sessions	Formal Paper 3 final draft due
23 and 24	Individual consultations	Bring as much as possible of your final paper in progress.
25	Two-minute research presentations	Prepare 2-minute research presentation to deliver to class.
26	Course overview	Final paper due