Hello, everybody.
Things are getting a little bit crazy already this semester, so I thought I should post while I am still sane! (at least I think I am). As I posted before, for my project, I am organizing with Jason, a conference devoted to improving student writing in the sciences. We now have a web site for the conference and Jason has put up a link to it (it is still "under construction" so please don't spread it around just yet). I won't repeat what was in my previous post or on the website. If you have any suggestions let me know. Right now I am trying to get my students in my Math 213W courses engaged in writing their first paper. It will be a short (5-7 pages) research paper using the powerful Mathematica software (introduced in the course) to experiment and discover new (at least to the student) results. We will also do peer editing. Toward that end, I will distribute a calendar this week for the paper and a sheet on guidlines for reviewers. I will post these in a few days. Students will form author/reviewer pairs. Each will review the other's paper. (Should I make the assignments or let them choose?). Jason has science writing tutors that can help me with this.