Jan A. Pechenik
Professor
Invertebrate Zoology and Marine Biology

Writing Workshops conducted for faculty and graduate students

I offer half-day, full-day, and day-and-a half writing workshops on a variety of topics.  I directed the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Tufts for 6 years, from 1998-2001 and from 2005-2008; and am the author of A Short Guide to Writing About Biology (7th ed).

Typical Topics:

• Using informal writing to teach science
• Teaching students to summarize information
• Giving students something to say: Teaching students to read data
• Using informal (ungraded) writing to teach, explore, and develop ideas
• Guiding student revision (and without killing ourselves in the process—how to put the work on the students' shoulders, where it will do the most good)
• How to get effective peer editing from students
• The role of oral presentation in getting good writing from students
• Designing assignments that teach
• Designing useful grading rubrics—why? how?
• For graduate students: writing brilliant papers and theses

Science Writing Workshops Presented:

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