History of Science OnlineWeek 5: Hellenistic Science |
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Web Project assignment: Brainstorm Writing Styles
| # | Due Date | Pts | Activity | Time |
| 6 | Monday
11:59 p.m. |
10 | Web
Project this is a semester-long project where, little-by-little and step-by-step each week, you create your own web project on an aspect of the history of science of special interest to you |
90 min
- 2 hours |
The rest of this page assumes that you are familiar with the general description of this weekly assignment found on the Web Project assignments page. After reading that description and completing last week's Web Project assignment, you are ready to begin this week's assignment.
Your assignment is to brainstorm four possible writing styles you might use in your Web Project.
Now that you have chosen a topic for your Web Project, you need to think about what writing styles you will use for your Episodes. This is not something you usually have to think about for a paper in a class. You usually just write from an impersonal, vague, third-person point of view, expounding your ideas without it being very clear who "you" are (many professors still discourage students from ever using the word "I" when they write a paper for school).
Well, the Web Project is completely different! For the Web Project as a whole, and for each of the Episodes it includes, you can choose to write from an impersonal, third-person, academic point of view... but you have many other choices, too! Your fellow students will all read your web project, and your web project will be published on the Internet so that virtually anyone might read it. It is not a formal paper; you can decide who you want to write it for. What will make it stand out? What will make people want to read it, and what will help them find it interesting and easy to remember?
There are basically two questions you can ask about your writing style for your Web Project:
You have already gotten some practice considering writing styles in the Interpretation essays you have completed over the past few weeks! Now you can use the same kind of creativity with your Web Project as you do with those weekly Interpretation assignments.
Take a look at this list of writing styles in order to get some ideas. Note: You can actually use multiple writing styles in your Web Project, so the styles listed there are not mutually exclusive. For example, you could use a dialogue AND a fictional diary or eye-witness account.
In the end, you might decide just to do an impersonal, analytical style; that is fine. But most students actually find it easier to do a Web Project that takes a more creative approach. Choose a writing style that will motivate you and give you more enjoyment in your project... and that will make it more engaging for your fellow students who will be reading it. This week is your opportunity to imagine lots of different creative possibilities... it's all in the power of your imagination!
For each of four different writing styles, write a few sentences explaining how you might use it in your Web Project. Be sure to answer the two questions listed above in bold bullet points. When completed, this assignment should be at least 400-1000 words in length. Please make sure that you have proofread the assignment and run a spellcheck and a word count. When you are done, send the assignment to the instructor in an email. Please give the email a subject line that says "3013-WebProject-Week5".
Warning: Please do not send a document attachment. Just cut-and-paste the assignment into the message body of the email. If you send me a Word document I will delete the email without reading it and you will receive a zero for this assignment.
"Four to six weeks in the lab can save an hour in the library" ~George J. Quarderer, Dow Chemical Co., cited by HS Folger (1999), Elements of Chem. Reaction Engineering.
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HSCI 3013. History
of Science to 17th century
Many thanks to Mythology
and Folklore and other online courses developed by Laura Gibbs.
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