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- Deborah Healey, Ph.D.
- English Language Institute, Oregon State University
- deborah.healey@oregonstate.edu
- http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/top/esp.html
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- What level are your students?
- What area of scientific English?
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- Needs analysis as the basis
- Discipline-specific content
- Sub-technical vocabulary
- Writing for the genre
- Active learning helps
- Use of multiple media
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- Methodology and activities of the underlying discipline as well as
content
- May want to have students do searches
- Use scientific methods to come up with keywords and evaluate their
finds
- teoma.com; scholar.google.com
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- Technical vocabulary and concepts
- Sub-technical vocabulary
- Appropriate writing genre
- Focus on describing, interpreting and explaining the various steps in
the scientific process
- Focus on syntactic elements typical of scientific writing: modals,
passive voice; nominalization
- Active learning
- Multiple modes of learning
- How much extra time to fill in what's missing?
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- Deborah’s ESP page has these links and the evaluation guide
- http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/top/esp.html
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- EFL for Engineering Without Fear: bibliography, links, tips for teaching
English for Engineering
- Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students from Virginia
Tech: step-by-step guides, sample formats, and exercises (usage and ambiguity
examples)
- Online Technical Writing textbook: examples of resumes, reports (fire
ant report)
- Technical Writing Exchange: students working with other students around
the world
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- With the lid off the reactor core was exposed, allowing radioactive
isotopes to escape.
- We propose to provide the above engineering services hourly based on the
following estimates.
- Compared with the pollution of the average coal-fired plant, the thermal
pollution of a nuclear power plant is less than 2 percent more.
- Reductions up to 80% in heat and mass transfer coefficients were
measured due to outgassing.
- As airplane designs change the anti-ice systems also have to change.
- Most people are diagnosed with phenylketonuria at birth.
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- Experimental Science Projects: An Introductory Level Guide
- How to do a science project
- The scientific method
- Links to the Intermediate Level Guide
- Clearly written; easy to read
- Energy Quest Science Projects (home page)
- Project instructions (anemometer example)
- Links to other project sites
- Designed for young people, but useful for anyone
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- Fowler's Physics Applets (with explanations and lecture notes – sample
Galileo & Einstein overview, Excel activities)
- General Physics Java Applets
- The Applet Collection (physics)
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- Readings in six core areas
- Earth Sciences
- Ecological Management
- Environmental Data Science & Systems
- Microbial Systems Biology
- Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
- Terrestrial Ecology
- Text, images and often video or animation (perchlorate example)
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- E.L. Easton’s science links
- Listing of electronic text archives
- The Why Files
- Tenlinks.com engineering links
- Everything requires some work to be useful – it’s a question of how much
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