Development of a Science Writing Program

我们建议开发、提供和评估一系列写作密集型、跨学科的科学课程和相关活动，构成“卫斯理科学写作计划”(WSWP)，旨在通过强调发展有效的口头和书面交流技能作为发现想法和批判性探索科学主题的方法，来补充以系为基础的本科生科学教学。该项目还将为理科和非理科专业的学生提供机会，通过在各种科学主题和科学文化研究方面的“冲突教学”，以及在不同学科的学生和教职员工之间建立一个跨学科的学习社区，对科学实践进行批判性和协作性的调查。学生可以在WSWP攻读“科学写作”专业和高级论文。此外，对科学和技术写作有职业兴趣的学生将接受适当的本科水平的指导和资格认证。课程也将向非理科学生开放，以满足卫斯理大学对普通教育的期望。WSWP也将作为一个结构，在这个结构中，具有写作和文科背景和兴趣的研究活跃的理科教师，以及人文教师和写作专业人员，可以应用积极、合作和协作学习、案例教学和基于讨论的教学等创新教学策略，并扩大最先进的电子技术用于加强教学的方式。该方案的结果将通过印刷和电子媒体传播。以这种方式，并在其明显成功的程度上，WSWP将为有兴趣建立类似计划的其他机构的计划提供一个模式。

We propose the development, offerings and assessment of a series of writing-intensive, interdisciplinary science courses and related activities constituting "The Wesleyan Science Writing Program" (WSWP), designed to complement department-based undergraduate science instruction by emphasizing the development of effective oral and written communication skills as methodologies for the discovery of ideas and critical exploration of scientific topics. The program will also provide opportunities for both science and non-science majors to investigate critically and collaboratively the practices of science by "teaching the conflict" on various scientific topics and cultural studies of science, and establishing a cross-disciplinary community of learning among students and faculty from diverse disciplines. Students may pursue a "Science Writing" major and senior thesis in the WSWP. Additionally, students with career interests in scientific and technical writing will receive instruction and credentialing appropriate at the appropriate undergraduate level. Courses will also be open to non-science students to fulfill Wesleyan University's general education expectations. The WSWP will also serve as a structure within which research-active science faculty with a background and interest in writing and the liberal arts, as well as humanities faculty and writing professionals, can apply innovative teaching strategies such as active, cooperative and collaborative learning, case method teaching, and discussion-based instruction, and expand the ways in which state-of-the-art electronic technologies are utilized to enhance instruction. The results of the program will be disseminated through both printed and electronic media. In this manner, and to the extent that it is demonstrably successful, the WSWP will provide a model for programs at other institutions interested in establishing a similar program.