[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: Another UCAR ESL Writing Workshop
Paula Fisher
paulad at ucar.edu
Tue May 7 11:46:23 MDT 2013
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Subject: Another UCAR ESL Writing Workshop
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 11:03:36 -0600
From: Jielun Sun <jsun at ucar.edu>
To: ESL-UCAR at mailman.ucar.edu, AsianCircle_Events at ucar.edu, Paula
Fisher <paulad at ucar.edu>
I hope you all paid attention to Staff Notes Daily today, not just the
bear story, but the UCAR ESL Writing Workshop. Here is the link.
http://www2.ucar.edu/for-staff/daily/announcements?utm_source=snd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=announcement&utm_content=briefannouncement#9510
UCAR ESL Writing Workshop: Improving Your Writing Style-Six Ways to
Increase the Readability of Your Manuscript
2:30-4:00pm, 15 May 2013, FL2-1001
By Debra Biasca, JD, PhD
While using correct grammar is certainly a requirement for
professionalism and maintaining credibility in your field, scientific
writing experts agree that writing for the reader is crucial; and
stylistic errors can present barriers to getting your message across to
readers.
This workshop will provide you with explicit tools based on writing
style that you can apply to improve the readability of your own
manuscripts. You will also have an opportunity to practice using these
tools. While this workshop can be helpful for native and non-native
speakers who want to improve their writing, it should be particularly
helpful for non-native speakers from cultures where readability is not a
primary concern.
To make the most of this workshop, attendees should read "The Science of
Scientific Writing" by George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swann (American
Scientist, Nov-Dec 1990, Volume 78, 550-558, posted with permission at
http://192.38.112.111/write/Science_writing.pdf.
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.
* Debra Biasca received her PhD in Linguistic in 1999, after a first
career as an attorney. She is now teaching scientific writing for the
Physics Department at CU Boulder. Her students come from a variety of
departments, including biochemistry, geology, mechanical and electrical
engineering, computer science, aeronautical engineering, and physics.
She has also assisted engineers and scientists in our community and
beyond with writing projects that include journal articles, books, and
grant proposals. Debra also coaches academic writers and teaches ESL
and other foreign languages (French and Yiddish) to children and adults.
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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