Homework for Thursday, 9/11

If you are one of the people who did not get the instructions on the homework for today, please check your RIC email address immediately and get up to speed. I will expect that the homework that was due for today (in particular, the blog posting) will be completed by, at the latest, this Friday at 5pm.

Here is the homework for this Thursday:

1. Read “Guidelines for Writing Scientific Papers” which (is saved as Guidelines.ScientificArticles.pdf) can be found here:

http://groups.google.com/group/writingrhetoric/files?hl=en

2. Read “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” (Haas/Flower)—you can find this reading on the same google groups page where you found “Guidelines…” As you read, take notes on where/when the authors move through the four (4) main sections of a scientific article: Introduction/Methods/Results/Discussion. They don’t have sub-headings to let you know where the Introduction section ends and the Methods section begins, but you can get a sense of it if you pay attention carefully.
3. Write Blog Entry #2: Summarize the key information in each of the four sections. So, briefly summarize the main points of the Introduction, then briefly summarize their Methods, the Results of their experiment, and what they conclude in their Discussion. (total: 400-600 words).