Writing
SP1541 Exploring Science Communication through Popular Science
The SP1541 course aims to equip students with critical thinking, reading, and writing skills that underlie effective communication of complex scientific content for a non-specialist audience. The course focuses on critical analysis and evaluation of science communication strategies to develop and consolidate students’ understanding of the differences between scientific academic texts such as research reports and popular science texts such as science news articles. Students will be exposed to popular science texts in various scientific disciplines, which will serve as the basis for group discussions, individual presentations, and the writing of science news articles targeted at an educated non-specialist audience.
SP2271 Introduction to the Scientific Literature
This course is designed to build essential skills for effective scientific reading and writing. The goal of the course is to empower students to (a) acquire science information strategically, (b) assess this information critically, (c) summarise scientific findings comprehensively and (d) share the information appropriately, coherently, accurately and responsibly. Students will critically read scientific publications, discuss scientific concepts, and report findings through coherent writing. Working in teams guided by mentors/Teaching Assistants (TAs), students collaboratively develop and enhance skills of scientific information literacy, writing and communication.
Notes
- This course is open to all CHS students and fulfils the CHS Writing requirement.
- This course is mandatory for those already in the Special Programme in Science.
FAS1101 Writing Academically: Arts and Social Sciences
This course develops and applies the core strategies that underlie successful academic writing. These include writing with clarity and precision, analysing how authors argue, organising and expressing ideas to guide readers through a line of reasoning, citing and documenting sources, revising the content, wording, and organisation of a paper, as well as surface features such as spelling and punctuation.
Students gain an appreciation of the basics of academic writing through three units, which correspond to the three stages of writing — introduction, body, and conclusion. By the end of the course, students should be able to: write with clarity; organise ideas thematically; write cohesive texts; write argumentative texts; and, cite sources.
FAS1101 is a 100 percent Continuous Assessment course. For more information, see the course's page on LumiNUS.
Introduction to FAS1101 Writing Academically
Teaching Team
Notes:
- Arts and Social Sciences Majors will read FAS1101
- Science Majors will read SP1541
- BES-XDP students can read either FAS1101 or SP1541
