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21W.732 | Fall 2010 | Undergraduate

# Science Writing and New Media

The following were assigned to students both as in-class activities and more extensive design projects.

Assignment tick list (PDF)

Exercises and In- Class Activities

Essays

Project I

Project II

Project III

In this course, students were required to complete both a movie essay and several reflective essays.

### Movie essay

Explain teamwork and the use of non-verbal communication in the 1939 film Stagecoach starring John Wayne. (PDF)

### Reflective essays

Myth and parachute stories (PDF)

Punctuation exercise (PDF) (Excerpt from A Theft by Saul Bellow)

Punctuation exercise solution (PDF)

Punctuation example (PDF) (Excerpt from Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss)

Graphics exercise (PDF)

Conceive, design, prototype, and test a product that will keep a standard, large, paper coffee cup, 3/4 full of coffee, hot for the 1.5 hour duration of class.

Overview (PDF)

Graphic representation of Project I (PDF)

Project I class notes/agenda (PDF)

Proposal and report structure (PDF)

Project I proposal madlib (PDF)

#### Homework 1

White paper assignment and madlib (PDF)

Brainstorming example (PDF)

Conceive, design, prototype, and evaluate a device to heat water with solar radiation.

Project II overview (PDF)

Team meeting agenda 1 (PDF)

Project III provides the opportunity to solidify your skills in the context of designing a product from scratch. Conceive, design, prototype and evaluate a device to reduce energy footprint.

Project III overview (PDF)

## Course Info

##### Instructors

- David Custer
- Elizabeth A. Page

##### Departments

- Comparative Media Studies/Writing
- Experimental Study Group

##### As Taught In

Fall 2010

##### Level

Undergraduate

##### 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

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