Readings

Class Overview and Introductions

Writing for a General Audience

Zinsser, William. “Science, Technology and Nature.” In On Writing Well. Harper Perennial, 2016. ISBN: 9780060891541.

Strogatz, Steven. “On Math,” first three entries.  The New York Times.

Overbye, Dennis “Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory.” The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2016.

Focus, Accuracy, and Making it Fresh

A Writer's Voice

Attitudes Towards Writing

What Do We Mean by Revision?

Tafton, Anne. “New way to stop the bleeding: Nanoscale biological coating developed at MIT could prevent battlefield deaths.” MIT News Office. January 10, 2012.

Hardesty, Larry. “Imaging with an ‘optical brush’.” MIT News Office. February 12, 2016.

Chu, Jennifer. “Microfluidics from LEGO bricks.” MIT News Office. January 30, 2018.

[Hancock] Ch. 5, “The Nitty-Gritty” + Ch. 6, “Refining Your Draft.”

The Profile: Writing about Science by Writing about Scientists

Anderson, Kevin and Glen Peters. “The Trouble with Negative Emissions.” Science 354, no. 6309 (2016): 182–193.

Yuen, C.M., C.A. Rodrigues, et al. “Map the Gap.” Public Health Action 5, no. 1 (2015): 45–58.

Stickgold, Robert. “Sleep On It!” Scientific American 313 (2015): 52–57.

Levenson, Thomas. “Antibiotics Gave Us Routine Surgery. Growing Resistance Could Change Everything.” The Boston Globe, Dec. 2, 2017.

Gladwell: Describing How Engineers Think

Incorporating Many Kinds of Evidence

The Research Process: Citing, Quoting, and Paraphrasing

Writing and Structure

Reading a Scientific Journal Article, Part 2

Moor, Robert. “Nor Any Drop to Drink? Why the Great Lakes Face a Murky Future.” The New York Times, May 23, 2017.

Frank, Adam. “Dreaming in Code.” The New York Times, Mar. 7, 2014.

Thubron, Colin. "The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf." The New York Times, Sept. 25, 2015.

Sobel, Dava. “Science’s Invisible Women.” The New York Times, Mar. 19, 2018.