Sir Isaac Newton
  Physics 496
  Introduction to Physics Research
  Spring 2020

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Writing Workshop (WW) Assignments

These exercises will be completed during class time on the day indicated and emailed to Celia at the conclusion of that day's session.

The purpose of WW is to help you improve your critical reading and rhetorical skills, and they will be graded as "showed up and made a sincere effort" = full points; "no show" = 0 points. In addition, your thoughtful and enthusiastic participation in WW and completion of the exercises will contribute to your "participation" points, as shown in the course grading scheme.

The writing workshop assignments are password protected and are available only students enrolled in PHYS 496. Please treat these exercises as confidential; they are not to be reposted or distributed to others outside the class.

WW #1—"Finding the Right Word"—January 24

WW #2—"Literature Search"—January 31    ReadMe

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WW #3—"Using the Right Word"—February 14

WW #4—"Four-Letter Words in Science Writing (no, not those words)"—February 21

WW #5—"Ambiguous Pronouns"—February 28

WW #6—"Them Thar" Indirect Openings"—March 6

WW #7—"Evaluating Figures and Captions"—March 13

WW #8—"The Three-Preposition Rule (3PR)"—March 27

WW #9—"Making Verbs Work"—April 3

WW #10—Parallel Construction—April 10

WW #11—"Shooting for Shorth"—April 24

WW #12—"Putting it All Together—Editing Ms.-P Style"—May 1