Environmental Writing

Environmental Writing
English 316 -- 3 credits

Fall 2007: 2:00-3:15, Tuesday/ Thursday: TLC 244

Instructor: Phil Druker
Department of English
Environmental Science Program

Office Hours: T/Th: 3:30-5, Wed: 9:00-11
Brink 204

Course description-- is this course for you?
Course guidelines
Grade conversion to numbers
Course syllabus (Fall 2007)
**Introductory letter <write this the first week of class>**
Course Criteria (also see course guidelines)

Course Assignments:

The Course Project
>>>See a list of past project topics

Proposals--see the outline for proposals

Proposal Sample 1 (also in course pamphlet)

Proposal Sample 2

Methods section summary sample

Interview section sample (with notes)

Interview section sample 2

Interview 3

Initial Proposal

Introductory memo--"interview" section or section of the final article

Conclusions

Cover letter for final article.

Putting the final essay together

(other assignments aren't posted here)

Extra credit

*Articles: find articles for this semester's 316 course. See the course syllabus for the password to access these reserved articles or contact the UI Library Reserve desk at 885-6495.

Note: the following pages provide information applicable to any writing course:

Creative Non-Fiction Defined--find general information on creative non-fiction.

Creative Non- Fiction Goals--find more information on writing creative non-fiction.
Expository Paragraph sample
Conclusions -- find information about writing conclusions.

Citing Sources:
Citing Sources in-text (APA style)
References Section (APA style)-bibliographic form APA style

Sentence Style:

Punctuation Style/Readability Correct Grammar

Capital Letters Be verbs Comparisons

Colons : Passive Sentences Parallelism

Commas , Wordiness Subject-verb agreement

Semicolons ; Nominalizations Pronoun agreement

>> Style check assignment

A success story
A movie: NOV 15 (Thursday) for a FREE showing of the film, The 11th Hour in the Gold Room of the Student Union Building. There will be two showings, 7 and 9pm.

Other writing tasks (not necessarily covered in this course):
Resumes
Critical Review

Photos from the Russian Far East-2006

A few articles I've written for the Lewiston Morning Tribune.

Juneau Icefield Article

(This page was last revised August,2007)