<div dir="auto"><div>I teach a lot of learning communities that pair my writing course with math, chemistry, business, and intro to computers, so it has the flavor you are looking for, though officially the course is FYC not TW.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My YouTube channel linked below has some of my project introduction videos or videos on writing techniques and writing systems that you might find meaningful, and our <a href="http://RewritingChemistry.wordpress.com">RewritingChemistry.wordpress.com</a> class blog describes some of the assignments from that pairing and has student work (over 50k bored since 2016), but I've got probably a half dozen others you might find useful, some still under review as part of an article or that I will be presenting on at CPTSC or have presented at NLCC and CWPA.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some of the assignments listed below are easier because I teach the 8 Aspects of Writing model which is designed to be a systemic, holistic, and more comprehensive approach to writing as a content area. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The short list:</div><div dir="auto">- Writing technologies throughout Math History</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-The Chemistry of Writing Technologies, (on the blog)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Chem4Kids children's books commissioned with a service learning literacy component</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Talking Cars - applies ambient rhetoric and PTC approaches to car maintenance and communication analysis, paper with intro to computers so students created maintenance documents while learning common Microsoft Office technologies, discussed supply chain on microchips for cars and writing technologies</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Compare/Contrast two social media platforms end user agreements, emphasis on PII sharing</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Talking Heads - Script that puts famous scientists in conversation in a fun way</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Chemist Fan Letters and Obituaries</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Household Rhetoric / My Chemical Adventure / Worst Case Scenario, analyze the rhetoric of household products, some versions include chemical reaction descriptions in a what if scenario based on storage of chemicals in the home</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Where Writing Finds Me, developing awareness of technical writing genres in daily life</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Ethnography of a Writing Culture, sometimes this focuses on professional workplace of students or personal online places, sometimes the writing culture and practices of one of their other classes which is great for developing awareness of major-specific writing norms.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hope that helps.</div><div dir="auto">Let me know if you want to discuss these at all, I have a fairly open schedule for video chatting throughout the week since I teach hybrid and asynchronous courses.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Gregg Fields, Ph. D. (Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies)<br><br>CGCC Residential Faculty - FYC Lead<br>Composition, Creative Writing, and Literature Division<br>Office: IRN 261<br><a href="mailto:gre2150069@cgc.edu">gre2150069@cgc.edu</a><br>Campus Telephone: 480-726-4165<br>Cell phone: 2526-U-WRITE / 252-689-7483<br>CHANNEL: <a href="http://youtube.com/c/GreggFieldsonWriting">youtube.com/c/GreggFieldsonWriting</a> <br>Research & Publication updates at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-fields-on-writing">https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-fields-on-writing</a><br><br>"There are so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance." (1 Cor. 14:10)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 7:07 PM Paul Sawyer <<a href="mailto:psawyer@selu.edu">psawyer@selu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone--<div><br></div><div>My department is thinking of offering some of our Intro to Technical Writing courses targeted specifically to our science-based/STEM majors on campus. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm having a hard time finding examples of universities that offer such a course. Does anyone know of/teach such a course at your university? I'm wondering what assignments would be in such a course?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks! I appreciate your help.</div><div><br></div><div>--Paul</div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Paul R. Sawyer, Ph.D.<br>Professor of English<br>
Director, Technical and Professional Writing Program<br>
Southeastern Louisiana University<br>
SLU 10861--English Department<br>
Hammond, LA 70402<br>
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Fax: 985 549-5021</div></div></div></div></div>
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