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Name: Writing Assignments: Summaries of Scientific Articles for Distinct Audiences - BIOS 202: Introductory Biology
ID: m15921
Language: English (en)
Summary: This handout was used to assign two papers in an Introductory Biology course at Rice University. Each assigned paper required the student to find and summarize a primary research article on a biological topic. The defined audience and purpose of each summary differ; in the first paper, the student writes to an R&D scientist about the use of a scientific product, and in the second, he/she writes to an incoming Rice freshman about recent work in a laboratory. The assignments include grading criteria and assessment sheets that have been used by writing mentors to grade the papers. Even in the absence of writing mentors in a course, the criteria and assessment sheets are helpful to the course instructor as well as to the students because they help define expectations for the papers.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: Biology, Scientific Article, Writing
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Maintainers: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Version: 1.2 (history)
Created: Mar 6, 2008 1:23 pm US/Central
Revised: May 2, 2008 10:04 am GMT-5

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Version: 1.2 May 2, 2008 10:04 am GMT-5 by The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication
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the number list is indented further as the original document
Version: 1.1 Mar 28, 2008 12:42 pm GMT-5 by The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication
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