Review papers are an excellent choice when you want students to have an experience in advanced literacy, but don’t need (or can’t arrange for) students to perform original research. They are very good for most STEM fields, especially the applied fields such as medicine. Most students pursuing undergraduate degrees in medical-related fields aren’t intending on […]
Discipline-specific prose is not simply about format: it also reflects and embodies ways of thinking within the discipline. Teachers, then, must be very clear about what they want when they say “I wish students could write better”. Do you really mean the nuts-and-bolts of effective writing or do you mean you wish students thought more […]
At this point, I don’t know how much experience you’ve had teaching writing. I’m going to assume that you don’t have a lot of experience or you’ve not done it in a discipline-specific context. If you are comfortable teaching writing, and just want a plan for a particular kind of paper, then skip this section […]