English 210.2
Writing in the Social Sciences (Professor Gina Marten)

English 210.2, Writing for the Social Sciences, was designed to help students develop their writing abilities and ideas in the context of a community of emerging readers and professional writers in the various fields of the social sciences.

English 210.2, Writing for the Social Sciences, is an intensive writing course designed by Gina Marten, in collaboration with Writing Fellow Kathleen Nolan, with oversight by Writing Fellow Coordinator Mary Soliday. Assignments and projects are scaffolded to culminate in the core assignment, an ethnographic research paper.

Course objectives
The course objectives are:
-- accountability for personal writing goals
-- composition basics
-- writing strategies
-- critical reading
-- secondary data collection
-- APA documentation
-- primary data collection
-- modes of dissemination to critical community

The course design includes many workshops that should take half a class period. Most are continued the following day. The workshops and assignments are sequenced in such a way as to show a possible series of steps taken in primary research. The first and last assignments bookend the course with writing as the content, and invite students to become actively involved in their learning process.

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Course Projects:

Biology 1500e: Biology & Education, NY Marine Environments

English 210.2: Writing in the Social Sciences

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