Communicating Scientific Information Effectively: 

 Strategies to Enhance Student Engagement and Competency    

14 May 1300-1600

In this interactive workshop, you will have an opportunity to examine ways to clearly identify the scientific and technical writing skills that you want students to develop in your course and across courses in your academic program. We will focus on how to design assignments that can engage students in writing proficient laboratory reports with appropriately labeled graphics to accompany them and how to construct rubrics to grade these reports so that student receive feedback in a practical and timely manner.  Ten “theory into practice” teaching strategies to help students thoughtfully prepare (not just “crank out”) written work such as literature searches, abstracts,  lab investigations and grant proposals will be demonstrated. Suggestions for coaching  students in preparing  PowerPoint reports, poster sessions, and technical documents that require critical thinking, scientific accuracy, scientific voice, and content  literacy will be presented. Techniques for grading and assessing student work will be demonstrated than can facilitate enhanced student learning and enable faculty to engage in data-driven teaching.