Skidmore College

Standards and Expectations/
Writing--In-The-Disciplines Workshop II:

Creating Writing-In-The-Disciplines Resources

29 May-1 June 2001

Participants
Schedule
Writing Expectations
Discipline-Specific Characteristics
Designing Paper Assignments
Responding to Student Writing
Grading and Assessment Rubrics
Departmental Writing Pages
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Discipline-Specific Characteristics
for Academic Papers

Chemistry (seminar level)

  • focuses on the chemistry, not its application
  • addresses rarefied audience
  • uses jargon to provide precise definitions and concise language
  • removes the scientist from the process
  • uses tables
    • text does not just repeat information from tables
    • text points reader to a particular place in the tables
    • text invites readers to scrutinize tables