CLL 410 Writing for Environmental Professionals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Semster:

Fall 2005

 

 

Instructor:

Donald K. Wagner

 

 

Office:

340A HBCrouse Hall

 

 

Office phone:

443-4946

 

Assignments

Home phone:

315-337-6463 (before 9 pm)

 

Video

Email address:

dkwagner@syr.edu

 

Pulp Diction

AIM:

TcomWrt

 

Class minutes

 

 

 

 

 

Course Objectives:

In this writing course, students have an opportunity to examine their own writing process, learning to revise and edit their own work. Students improve their writing through peer review, audience analysis, and collaborative work. We look carefully at style, organization, format, and development. Students critique the writing of their peers (both in the classroom and in the field).

Students have the opportunity to analyze writing as a way of learning and thinking. We analyze the way language is used by the environment science community and examine some of the communication problems between the environmental science community and the rest of the world. W use writing to examine controversial issues and challenge some of the basic assumptions held by the environmental science community.

Writing projects include: journal entries, resume, cover letter, memo, definitions, environmental policy statements, analysis and proposal, abstract, report, and oral presentation.

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