[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: Another writing workshop for your ASP fellows

[Paula Fisher]

Hi all,

In case you missed this in the announcements.  You will need to RSVP to 
the contact listed in the text below.

Paula


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Subject: 	Another writing workshop for your ASP fellows
Date: 	Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:41:07 -0600
From: 	Jielun Sun <jsun at ucar.edu>
To: 	Paula Fisher <paulad at ucar.edu>



Hi, Paula,
     The following announcement appears in today's Staff Notes Daily. It 
may be useful for your ASP follows.
    Jielun
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Writers in Dialogue with Readers: How Researchers Construct Text as 
Information Delivery Vehicles for Defined Audiences

10:30-12:00am, 1 May 2013, FLA-2111

By Steven T. Olson

Scientific and academic writing is a dialogue between writers and 
readers.  As such, writing must conform to disciplinary norms that shape 
discourse and differentiate text from the relative informality of speech.

This lecture/workshop focuses participants on the production of text as 
a dialogue, with special emphasis on how writers become visible in their 
papers.  We will analyze a number of published texts to identify how 
authors situate themselves within a discourse, thereby facilitating the 
dialogue intrinsic to academic text production.  Specific concerns to be 
examined include: first person pronouns (function and distribution), 
active vs. passive voice constructions, distinguishing the function of 
/which /from /that/, semantic bridges vs. subordinate conjunctions, and 
structuring the introduction of text. Throughout, our concern is with 
understanding text as more than a mere vessel to be filled with content; 
rather, the text is understood as a vehicle for the delivery of content.

To make sure that we have a proper room for all participants, please 
email Leiwen Jiang <mailto:ljiang at ucar.edu> if you plan to participate 
in this workshop.

* Steve Olson has taught Academic Writing for Foreign Students (ESLG 
1210), Advanced Written Composition (ESLG 1222), and Research Writing at 
University of Colorado, Boulder.  In addition, he has frequently edited 
theses and dissertations as well as manuscripts for publication.

For more information, contact Leiwen Jiang at ext. 8122, ljiang at ucar.edu 
<mailto:ljiang at ucar.edu>

-- 
Jielun Sun
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Division
NCAR Earth System Laboratory (NESL)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000, USA
303-497-8994
jsun at ucar.edu
http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/jsun/



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