by Irami Osei-Frimpong The barriers to good writing in my discipline seem to be both intellectual and attitudinal. Intellectually, the concepts are often foreign to the students, and even if the concepts are familiar, the concepts are sophisticated in themselves. With the attitudinal obstacles, traversing those barriers requires students to engage a quality of self-inclusion…
by Whit Weinmann Back in Fall of 2019, I took the class that I am now a Writing TA for. This class, the senior year capstone course, challenged me quite a bit! Then as now, it blends advanced statistical topics, communication skills, and team-based-real-world-project work into one neat package. To be honest, it’s a bit…
by Andrew Wiggins “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” —Robert McKee As a PhD candidate, I am routinely evolving and improving the narrative telling the story of my research. I have learned that doing science is only half of the process for a scientist. The second involves communicating…
by Simon Xu Writing and mathematics may seem orthogonal to each other, especially to students who are taking their first heavily proof-based course. Even for some more experienced math students, including myself, who might have sensed some degree of similarities between these disciplines, it can be difficult to articulate a precise relationship. In our class…