Dynamic Writing Strategies: Synthesizing Resources (6.30.16)

Seating is limited to 30 and registration is REQUIRED.

Featured Speaker: Leslie Ann Roldan, PhD Lecturer II, MIT

Description: The sixth (and last!) workshop of the series focuses on the use of sources: paraphrasing, notetaking, and synthesis. Please come prepared by bringing 2-3 research articles you are considering citing in your next writing project, as well as anything you use for taking notes (e.g., laptop, paper and pencil).

“The fundamental purpose of scientific discourse is not the mere presentation of information and thought, but rather its actual communication. It does not matter how pleased an author might be to have converted all the right data into sentences and paragraphs; it matters only whether a large majority of the reading audience accurately perceives what the author had in mind.” (Gopen and Swan, American Scientist, 1990.)

MIT Lecturer Leslie Ann Roldan will lead a series of highly interactive workshops designed to explore the processes of creating effective and impactful writing for science. Workshop participants should bring a copy of their own work to be guided through various stages of effective writing, from predrafting, visual communication techniques, and best practices for incorporating sources. The Dynamic Writing Strategies programs are interactive, and each can be taken as a stand-alone workshop.

Speaker’s Background: Lecturer in MIT’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program since 2005, primarily teaching in the Biology Department (7.02, 7.18), Biological Engineering (20.109), and Chemistry (5.36). BA in English (Stanford); PhD in Biology (MIT).