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21W.732 | Fall 2010 | Undergraduate

# Science Writing and New Media

#### Course Description

This course introduces writing, graphics, meetings, oral presentation, collaboration, and design as tools for product development. The communication instruction is embedded in design projects that require students to work in teams to conceive, design, prototype and evaluate energy related products. The communication …

This course introduces writing, graphics, meetings, oral presentation, collaboration, and design as tools for product development. The communication instruction is embedded in design projects that require students to work in teams to conceive, design, prototype and evaluate energy related products. The communication instruction focuses on the communication tasks that are integral to this design process, ranging, across design notebooks, email communications, informal oral presentations, meeting etiquette, literature searches, white papers reports, and formal presentations. In addition to the assignments specific to product development, a few assignments, especially reading and reflection, will address the cultural situation of engineers and engineering in the world at large.

##### Acknowledgment

The instructors would like to thank Prof. Alex Slocum and Mark Graham for their contributions to this course.

## Course Info

##### Instructors

- David Custer
- Elizabeth A. Page

##### Departments

- Comparative Media Studies/Writing
- Experimental Study Group

##### Topics

- Business
  - Project Management
- Fine Arts
  - Media Studies
    - Digital Media
- Humanities
  - Literature
    - Academic Writing
    - Nonfiction Prose
    - Technical Writing
- Social Science
  - Communication

##### Learning Resource Types

group_work Projects with Examples
assignment_turned_in Written Assignments with Examples
co_present Instructor Insights
Students were given the assignment of creating a solar hot water heater. Pictured here are one group’s models during testing. This duplication proves reproducibility. (Image courtesy of Jonathan Abbott, Lilian Guevara, Nolan Essigmann. Used with permission.)

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