科目名科学論文の書き方
科目名（英訳）Scientific Writing
単位１単位
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授業内容
MAKING SENSE OF THE SCIENCE A Workshop on Effective Written Communication

Presented by Judith A. Swan, Ph.D. Princeton Writing Program


Overview: This Course introduces a new approach to scientific writing in English, intended for both novice and experienced writers. Novice writers will gain an overview of the writing process, an understanding of scientific communication and documents, and an effective method of revision for clarity and coherence. Experienced writers will gain in addition an in-depth understanding of the strategies they already use; such conscious awareness of the principles of effective writing enables more experienced writers to work with novices more efficiently and effectively. Although for the participants in this offering of the course, English is a second language, the course develops principles of clear writing that even native English speakers benefit from learning explicitly. The course is run as a workshop, with opportunities in class for working on examples taken from the scientific literature. The sessions build consecutively: The first session begins by looking at clarity in sentences, whereas the final session culminates with principles for effective scientific documents, especially research articles and grant applications.
Dr. Judith A. Swan The lectures are presented by Judith A. Swan, who currently teaches in the Princetion Writing Program. Dr. Swan holds a Ph.D. in Biology from MIT; for over 15 years, she has been teaching scientific writing to scientists at many institutions such as the US National Institutes of Health, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Rockefeller University, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Princeton University. In 2000, she taught this course in Japan at the National Institute of Genetics at Mishima. She is the co-author with George D. Gopen of an article "The Science of Scientific Writing," [http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs/sci.pdf], which introduced the scientific community to many of the principles described in this course.
授業計画
'Making Sense of the Science
'from Sokendai with Judith A. Swan PhD.


Lecture 1 - Introduction
Explanation of Reader Expectation Theory
Discussion of the purposes of Scientific Writing
"Reader Energy" and the act of interpretation
Lecture 2 - Introduction (continued) The 4 stages of writing
Explanation of Reader Expectation Theory Discussion of the purposes of Scientific Writing "Reader Energy" and the act of interpretation
Lecture 3 - Language and Clarity (audio only)
Focus: Reader expectations for the structures of sentences Goals: Making clear cause and effect Assigning (and hiding) responsibility Using the active and passive voice in science
Lecture 4 - Language and Clarity (continued - audio only)
Focus: Reader expectations for the structures of sentences Goals: Making clear cause and effect Assigning (and hiding) responsibility Using the active and passive voice in science
Lecture 5 - Clarity and Cohesiveness (Topic Position)
Goals: Indicating perspective Establishing context Unburdening readers Linking backwards
Lecture 5a - Noun Strings

Lecture 6 - Cohesiveness and Emphasis (Topic Position)
Goals: Creating emphasis Signaling importance Judging appropriate sentence length Creating cohesive passages
Lecture 7 - Cohesiveness and Emphasis (Topic Position)(continued)
Goals: Creating emphasis Signaling importance Judging appropriate sentence length Creating cohesive passages
Lecture 8 - Competing Emphasis
Sentences containing more than one clause Goals: Weighing evidence Delivering judgements
Lecture 9 - Review , wrap-up

Lecture 10 - Paragraphs
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