by Cameron Steuart At this point in the year, the students in my Music in the Twentieth-Century course are just getting started with the first assignment that will eventually build to an end-of-term paper. For this component, they have to provide me with a topic and an abstract that is focused on methodology. In anticipation…
by Melissa Gomes I have had the rare privilege of getting to both take the writing-intensive class in linguistics as an undergraduate student and now assist teaching the same course as a graduate student. My first experience with the Writing Intensive Program (WIP) was three years ago as an undergraduate linguistics major taking LING 3150:…
by Seth McWhorter There exists a schism in my thoughts on the focus of writing in Biology. Scientific writing squeezes creativity out of a writer, creating a robotic writing style that echoes every thought of a researcher’s predecessors. Creativity is still a necessary trait in a scientist, but a scientist’s focus is on creating unique…
What can students learn? What can researchers learn? by Sammantha Holder Writing for a popular audience requires a high degree of skill. Taking complex concepts and effectively communicating them in a clear, meaningful, and interesting way can be challenging, even for a skilled writer. For students who are attempting to master new material, communicating that…