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Scientific Writing: Developing Materials Without Reinventing the Wheel
Casida E. Luzares
Lecturer:Mr. Joey Z. Balsomo
GRTE208De La Salle University - D
OVERVIEW
I. The ProblemII. Needs Analysis
A. Pre-needs identificationa.1. Essence of Scientific Writing
CourseB. Needs identification
b.1. Role of subject specialist teachers
b.2. Role of students
III. Assumptions on materials development inScientific WritingA. Kind of Material/sB. Students learn Writer’s Decision MakingC. Students learn to write [science].
IV. Considerations on choosing the genre.V. Putting Together the Learning Materials.VI. Conclusion
OVERVIEW
Scientific Writing: Developing Materials Without Reinventing the Wheel
Motive Questions
• What is genre analysis?• What difference of approach do you see
between academic course and a pre-service course?
• It is not necessary to course a lot of genres, but rather to course a few in depth. Agree?
Heavy teaching loads+ large classes
LACK OF TIME to do research or to develop materials
I. The Problem
II. Needs Analysis
A. Pre-needs Identification
• Teacher/materials developer avoids overlapping of content, subject matter or skills
• Academic course or Pre-service course?
A. Pre-needs Identification• Academic course– writing tasks demanded by their specialist courses
at the university
• Pre-service course– writing tasks that required the students to do when
they start practicing the profession
II. Needs Analysis
B. Needs IdentificationB. 1. Role of subject specialist teachers
• Tell types of papers/reports• Enumerates the criteria of evaluation• Distinguishes writing problems• Being persuaded to allow their works to be
exploited for teaching purposes.
II. Needs Analysis
B. Needs IdentificationB. 2. Role of students
• Attitudes towards writing• Attitudes towards English• Attitudes towards the English teacher• Study/work habits• Level of general writing proficiency
II. Needs Analysis
III. Assumptions on materials development in Scientific WritingA. Kind of material/s
• What is writing?• What are the primary purposes of
writing in science?• How does one learn to write?• What is the role of materials in
learning how to write?
B. Students learn Writer’s Decision Making•Why am I undertaking this writing task?•Who is my reader?•What kind of information or content do I
need?• How should I organize this information or
content?
III. Assumptions on materials development in Scientific Writing
C. Students learn to write [science].•the writing task is meaningful•writing whole genre/sub-genre is meaningful
than fragments of texts/non-contextualized sentences
•discoursal and formal characteristics of the specific genre or sub-genre is understood.
•writing is non-linear.
III. Assumptions on materials development in Scientific Writing
IV. Considerations on choosing the [scientific writing] genre
• Which one is needed immediately?• How much time will it take to learn how to
write it?• Which one has already been learned in the
subject specialist courses that the students have taken?
V. Putting Together the Learning MaterialsThree types of Scientific Writing:
A. Materials that provide a venue for discovering the discoursal and/or linguistic
or formal features of the genre.
Illustration A
V. Putting Together the Learning Materials
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/documents/307_01.pdf
V. Putting Together the Learning MaterialsThree types of Scientific Writing:
B. Materials that provide the content or information for the writing of the text or genre.
Illustration B
V. Putting Together the Learning Materials
V. Putting Together the Learning Materials
V. Putting Together the Learning MaterialsThree types of Scientific Writing:
C. Materials that increase the learner’s awareness of the linguistic or discoursal features or items of the genre and provide practice in the use of these features.
Illustration C
V. Putting Together the Learning Materials
Conclusion
• Our age is learning a post-textbook age.• Teachers are more credible sources of
information on what are needed and what works.
Reference
GETTING STARTED:MATERIALS WRITERS
ON MATERIALS WRITING
Edited by
Araceli C. HidalgoDavid Hall
George M. Jacobs