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BIOL 4200W

Science and Health Writing
Credit Hours:
3 hours.
Level:

Students will analyze the ways that scientists’ and health professionals’ messages must change with the audiences they address, whether scientific, lay, or government. Students will explore topics of interest in a science or health field, and they will communicate about that topic through different writing formats and strategies.

This version of the course will be taught as writing intensive, which means that the course will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a) relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. The written assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and substantive revision.

Semester Offered:
Fall
Spring
Course Type:

Instructors of this Course

Science Writing Lecturer

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