WR 525 Advanced Scientific and Technical Writing
Cross listed as PSM 525
Learn to hone your scientific writing skills and ways to communicate science to various audiences!
If you have completed a research project or internship, bring your data set to this course. You will examine what researchers publish, when they publish, and why.
- Learn to use tools and to follow processes for writing.
- Understand and adapt to different audiences.
- Understand which journal is best to communicate your research findings to target audiences.
- Learn by editing and peer reviewing.
Using your data and research methods, you will
- Use persuasion effectively to write a proposal and a cover letter to a funding agency;
- Write to various audiences about data and results;
- Write a scientific manuscript and a magazine article using outlet guidelines;
- Determine and create an appropriate visual display;
- Edit and revise work after peer review;
- Analyze a collection of science magazine articles and write a book review.
Challenging? Yes. Worthwhile? Absolutely!
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