Expository Writing
Three upper-level courses will be offered by the College of Arts and Sciences' Expository Writing Program in Spring 2010.
V40.0016 Advanced Essay Writing for Science
Instructor: Helen Polson, Language Lecturer, EWP
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay (any version).
Science writing as practiced in Advanced Essay Writing for Science extends an invitation to students to think about the theory, practice, and culture of science. We’ll draw on a selection of science and nature essays, writing by professional scientists, science journalism, the popular culture of science, and the history and philosophy of science. We’ll be visited by professional science writers, go on fieldtrips to hear speakers, visit exhibits and labs. We’ll read from Dawkins, Wilson, Gould, Judson, Dennett, Pinker, Eiseley, Sacks, and Tyson as well as Galileo, Hooke, Kuhn, Popper, Hume, and Snow.
V40.0017 Writing in Community
Instructor: Laura Weinert-Kendt, Language Lecturer, EWP
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay and the permission of the course instructor.
Writing in Community is a course for students who are passionate about writing and community service and would like to explore the dynamic relationship between these two pursuits. As a team, we will head off campus each week to mentor under-served high school students in essay writing. Back on campus, we will have weekly meetings to help us enhance our writing and mentoring skills as we develop our own ideas into essays. We will study writers, artists, and filmmakers whose service and/or community engagement has become a basis for work that documents and reflects on pressing social concerns.
Students require an access code to register for the course. Interested students should contact Laura Weinert-Kendt at law320@nyu.edu.
V40.0018 Writing and Speaking in the Disciplines
Instructor: Andrea McKenzie, Director, Writing in the Disciplines
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: V40.0100, Writing the Essay (any version). Students performing independent studies projects must obtain the instructor’s permission and the permission of the faculty advisor involved in the project. (Contact: andrea.mckenzie@nyu.edu or am127@nyu.edu)
Course Description
This communications-intensive course pairs writing-intensive research in the student’s own chosen discipline with the study and practice of scholarly presentations in those disciplines. Students will practice observing, analyzing and assessing the broad structure and elements of academic research writing and presentations in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences; they will then analyze writing and speaking practices in their own chosen major or minor. Elements studied will include audience, visual design, structural elements, rhetorical patterns, logic, and evidence in communicating with scholarly audiences. Students will then design and present their own critical thinking and research in oral presentations and written research. Major assignments will include oral and written design proposals, plus research results presentations and reports. Students will be encouraged to present their research at New York University’s Undergraduate Research Conference.