Writing Workshops
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
(8th 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:
Cape Bretton University, Canada
College of Wooster
Eastern Connecticut State University
Flinders University (Australia)
Gordon College Harvard University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lafayette College
Long Island University
Northern Arizona University
Plymouth State College
University of Prince Edward Island
Simon's Rock at Bard College
Swarthmore College
Smith College
St. Francis Xavier University
University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
University of Rhode Island
University of South Carolina
Wellesley College
Westfield State College
Wilkes University
World Fisheries Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
Wrting About Biology
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