WRITING NATURE:

DISCOURSES on NATURE, CULTURE, and TECHNOLOGY

 Assignments

"Leap-of-Faith Essay" / The Research Paper / Rhetorical Practice/Rhetorical Analysis / Reading Presentation / Presentation on the Research or Community Writing Project / End-Quarter Writing Portfolio

 

WRITTEN WORK

The Leap-of-Faith Essay: A Contextual Analysis

The Leap of Faith: Part 1

The Leap of Faith: Part 2

The Leap of Faith: Part 3

The Leap of Faith: Draft (Assignment and Criteria)

Peer Review

Conference Schedule for Peer Review Conference on Draft

 

The Research Paper

NOTE: Throughout your research project, refer to SKIL (Stanford's Key to Information Literacy: An Interactive Tutorial) as an essential supplement to our texts. This new and excellent source of information will instruct and advise you about undertaking research at Stanford and beyond. Familiarity with specific aspects of this site will be actively assigned from time to time.

Assignment Overview

Stage 1: 3 Topic Ideas

Examples: Preliminary topics from past sections of "Writing Nature"

Stage 2:

Research Proposal. Please complete the research proposal prior to class time on October 21. Bring it to class for workshopping.

Research Topic Form . We will complete the forms at the end of our class period on Tuesday, October 21. I will then deliver these forms to the libraian who is leading our workshop on October 23.)

The Library Workshop (during class time on Tuesday, October 28) will be designed around your research paper topics. To prepare for your library workshop on, please take the Green Library Online Tour and take a look at SKIL (Stanford's Key to Information Literacy)

Stage 3: Working Annotated Bibliography

Stage 4: Outline

Stage 5: Draft

Peer Review Questions

Conference Sheet for Peer Review Conferences on the Draft

Stage 6: Revision

PWR Research Paper Examples: Boothe Prize Winners 2000-2001

 

Argument Based on Rhetorical Analysis of Written or Visual Text

Draft (Assignment and Criteria)

Conference Schedule for Conference on Draft

 

ORAL WORK

 

Reading Presentation: Reading Like a Writer

Rhetorical Analysis: Assignment Guidelines

Carolyn's Extra-Special Power Point Presentation on PowerPoint Presentations

Reading Presentation Schedule

 

Oral Presentation on the Research Project

Assignment Guidelines

Presentation Schedule

Multimedia and Oral Communications Resources

The Oral Communication Program at The Center for Teaching and Learning

The Multimedia Studio (located on the second floor of Meyer Library; the Multimedia Studio provides consultants to help students develop multimedia projects)

Carolyn's Extra-Special Power Point Presentation on Oral (and PowerPoint) Presentations

 

END-QUARTER PORTFOLIO

 

Writing Portfolios

Cover Letter: Assignment Sheet

Portfolio Checklist

 

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