Folks, you're doing great so far in working out your struggle with multiple editorial demands and writerly concepts. Yes, the composition and construction of the Sci/Tech Blog assignment is asking you to fire on all cylinders, as you have to keep in mind not only what you're observing in mediated public discourse, but also what we're learning about it, which sometimes urges us to rethink what we observe. As well, you're doing the hard work of figuring out your principal challenge, which will be to re/create a plausible narrative that allows you to make good and transparent use of someone else's research (which you or may not choose to enhance with research of your own).
There is one final analytical step I think we need to make -- understanding the "white paper" genre, and observing how that genre already does some of the transforming and re-narrativizing that we need to do with highly technical information. So, we'll spend Thursday's class period focusing on this genre, and I'll offer you time to complete Short Assignment #2 in class, so that you have the benefit of a workshop environment. You can find preparation notes linked to that assignment description. Please come prepared.
Please bring with you Style and Working with Words! We are now entering the time in the semester when we need to have both books handy.
See you then,
-Prof G
