Warning on usage: Copyrighted materials is noted. US laws allows me as an instructor to use them by the fair use doctrine under the assumption that no essay gets used more than a few times a year by isolated students. If I find to the contrary I remove it.

Resources

• Handouts in class
• One-page comments on speaking and writing
• Books on SEL Reserve
• Browsers
• Science Links, please tell me of new good links.
• Dictionaries and encyclopedia
• On-line writing resources
• Assesments and essays
• Samples and analysis of Campaign 2000 political speeches: Bush

Collection of Resources

Online information

American Heritage Dictionary

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

Encyclopaedia Brittanica Syntax: " ", ( ), AND/+, NOT/-, OR, *   also & finally.

Database and other resources

Writing Skills Resources

OWL: Online writing laboratory

OSU Writing Center, 688-4291 or 292-5607, 485 Mendenhall Lab.

   The WC provides free tutorial services at any stage of the

   writing process, except proofreading. Call for appointment.

Consulting Services for GEC writing course instructor.

   485 Mendenhall, 8-5888; Roger Cherry, Director, 8-5865. cstw@osu.edu

Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch

Ronald Standler's Technical Writing Guide

Strunk's Elements of Style; Short list of rules

Elements of Style for Web Design, Christine Quinn

Allyn and Bacon Site on English Composition.

Text/exercises from "The Craft of Scientific Writing" by M Alley, 3rd edition

Assessments and essays

Grading your own talk (before giving it)

Style: for reader or writer

Reinventing physics: search for real frontier Robert Laughlin 2005

Procrastinationes, can you be cured? 2005

Dangers of procrastination 2002

Value of planning ahead,avoiding all-nighters 1998

Killing a Elephant, excellent (1936) example of point of view in describing an experience (by George Orwell)

Owing a written explanation to the widest possible audience -- a defense of why science needs to be explained and how one person does it.

On screen reading more difficult?

Freshmen assess their abilities

E-Mail and the Law of Unintended Consequences

The challenge of communicating science to the public

The End of Ingenuity or the exponential catches up.

Fear of speaking

Preoccupied by physics

Sleep deprivation,
quiz on sleep, with answers,
Price for cheating on sleep

The more things change ...

Variety of learning styles

Grammatically incorrect

Proofreading exercises

Noodling around: Editors I have known and loved