<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div> Hi Cagle,<div><br></div><div>For the list, I thought I'd summarize the Twitter thread. I'm going to hit on sample papers, activities, and concepts I rely upon for this area. FYI, I mostly teach white papers in two classes, a MechE system design course and an information policy class in computer science. I say this because I find the white paper genre extremely unstable and highly contextual. </div><div><br></div><div>I have three samples I tend to fall back on for white paper examples. Two are longer examples that summarize concepts for the public or a customer, while the third is a more traditionally short broadsheet that's public facing.<br><br>MAPP from Lincoln Lab--<a href="https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/publications/modular-aid-and-power-pallet-mapp-fy18-energy-technical-investment-program" target="_blank">https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/publications/modular-aid-and-power-pallet-mapp-fy18-energy-technical-investment-program</a></div></div><div>Robust project overview paper, though written customer-facing more than engineer-facing.</div><div><br></div><div>Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer--<a href="https://datasociety.net/library/algorithmic-accountability-a-primer/">https://datasociety.net/library/algorithmic-accountability-a-primer/</a></div><div>Policy white paper. This paper has a public-facing feel to it, but it's definitely largely targeting teachers and journalists. </div><div><br></div><div>Hart InterCivic's Verity--<a href="https://www.hartintercivic.com/voting-solutions/verityoverview/" target="_blank">https://www.hartintercivic.com/voting-solutions/verityoverview/</a></div><div>More traditional broadsheet complete with bulleted lists. I like this one because of the interest in electronic voting and because I worked for Hart way back in the day during HAVA.<br><br>As for activities, the two keys for me are capturing the fluidity of the genre and conveying the central challenge of distilling complex information into core concepts for a non-technical or less technical audience. I have two go-to activities for this lesson.<br><br>Board Game Activity: I have students look at a board game's full rules versus its player cards or one-pager. Catan is my go-to example, but there are many, many examples in modern board games that make this move. Then I ask students to create "player cards" for the project they're working on.<br><br>Research Broadsheet: I ask students to pick a paper from Disney Research. They then annotate for stases and core moves. I ask them to create an overview and broadhseet from the research paper annotations. For a long assignment, you could also have them re-write the research paper into something resembling MAPP.<br><br><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:44 AM Cagle, Lauren E. <<a href="mailto:lauren.cagle@uky.edu" target="_blank">lauren.cagle@uky.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p dir="ltr">Hi all!</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt">A colleaguehere at UK is looking for resources on teaching white papers, which I haven't explicitly taught before.</span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-size:12pt">Do y'all have any resources you're willing to share, such as:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">* Assignment sheets?<br>
* Readings?<br>
* Lesson plans?<br>
* Models?<br>
* Hand-outs?</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Thank you!</p>
Cagle</div>
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