Writing Workshop (WW) Assignments
These exercises will be completed during class time on the day indicated 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"—January 19 Solutions
WW #2—"Literature Search"—January 26 ReadMe
Bardeen Baym Kwiat Leggett Selvin Van Harlingen
WW #3—"Using the Right Word"—February 2 Solutions
WW #4—"Four-Letter Words in Science Writing"—February 16 (no, not those words) Solutions
WW #5—"Ambiguous Pronouns"—February 23 ; Solutions
WW #6—"Them Thar" Indirect Openings"—March 2
WW #7—"Evaluating Figures and Captions"—March 9
WW #8—"The Three-Preposition Rule (3PR)"—March 16
WW #9—"Making Verbs Work"—March 30
WW #10—"Writing Instructions"—April 6
WW #11—"Shooting for Shorth"—April 13
WW #12—"Putting it All Together—Editing Ms.-P Style"—April 27
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