Writing Workshop (WW) Assignments
These exercises will be completed during Writing Workshop (WW) and emailed to Celia at the conclusion of that day's session.
The purpose of WW is to help you improve your critical reading and rhetorical skills, and they will be graded as "showed up and made a sincere effort" = full points; "no show" = 0 points. In addition, your thoughtful and enthusiastic participation in WW and completion of the exercises will contribute to your "participation" points, as shown in the course grading scheme.
The writing workshop assignments are password protected and are available only students enrolled in PHYS 496. Please treat these exercises as confidential; they are not to be reposted or distributed to others outside the class.
WW #1—"Finding the Right Word"—September 1 Solutions
WW #2—"Literature Search"—September 8 ReadMe
Bardeen Baym Kwiat Leggett Selvin Van Harlingen
WW #3—"Using the Right Word"—September 15 Solutions
WW #4—"Four-Letter Words in Science Writing"—September 29 (no, not those words) Solutions
WW #5—"Ambiguous Pronouns"—October 6 Solutions
WW #6—"Them Thar" Indirect Openings"—October 13 Solutions
WW #7—"Evaluating Figures and Captions"—October 20
WW #8—"The Three-Preposition Rule (3PR)"—October 27 Solutions
WW #9—"Making Verbs Work"—November 3 Solutions
WW #10—"Writing Instructions"—November 10
WW #11—"Shooting for Shorth"—November 17 Solutions
WW #12—"Putting it All Together—Editing Ms.-P Style"—December 1 Solutions