PHYS 595

Credit: 4 hours.

Helps graduate students in science and engineering improve their scientific writing and presentation skills through instruction and detailed feedback on a variety of technical writing and presentation styles common in science and engineering practice. These assignments include a journal-style research paper, an NSF-style proposal, an editor cover letter, a referee report, and journal club and research presentations. In class weekly "Writing Workshop" assignments also offer students experience reading and revising technical material and correcting common rhetorical errors.