ESG 21W.732 Haven
Science Writing and New Media
(formerly called Introduction to Technical and Scientific Writing)
Fall, 2009 course materials

• ESG 21W.732 syllabus
• ESG 21W.732 processes
• ESG 21W.732 assignment listing
• ESG 21W.732 assignment schedule
• deliverables schedule for late Sept and early Oct (project II +/-)
• deliverables for mid October (more project II, movie essays)
• late Oct assignments listing

• project I overview
  
• homework 1 example
• project I proposal madlib .pdf or .doc
• table of design spaces and designs (to be populated ~Sept 15)

• class 1 agenda
• class 2 agenda
• class 3 & 4 agenda
• blackboard images from class 2
• selection table from class 4 (thumbnail images only)
• project I design images from blackboard in class 3
• blackboard images from class 4
• blackboard images from class 6
• blackboards, class 7 (sorry, no thumbnails)
• blackboards, class 8 (sorry, no thumbnails)

• poster examples: Van Gogh's The Ravine and examples from 2.009 (click on project image and "IDEAS")
• examples of Mech-E thesis proposals

• agenda for team meeting 1
• prototype images

• end of term gannt chart
• end of term caldendar

sample reports from the literature

• ASME cooling drill report
• micro heat exchanger
• on the secular cooling of the earth
• parabolic solar collector trough

readings

• MIT libraries' video introduction to Compendex
• FRDPARRC introduction
• Oakley, Turning student groups into effective teams
• Philips, So you're going to be a member of a team
• questions to consider to create a team contract
• forming, norming, storming, performing...
• multiple intelligences
• meyers-briggs/learning styles test
• pirate's creed of ethics
• ASME authors ethical standards
• ASME Code of Ethics for Engineers
• The science of scientific writing
• Kishlansky on reading
• active listening (courtesy of the MIT leadership folks & JoAnne Yates)
• meeting checklist (courtesty of the MIT leadership folks)
• Pogue camera article
• Pogue, image I
• Pogue, image II
• Should Ohm'sLaw Be Repealed?
• exerpts from The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
• Who's a Nerd, Anyway?
• The Moral Instinct
• Primo LeviArgon
• James Thurber's The Unicorn in the Garden
• exerpts from What Color is Your Parachute

starting points for literature searching

• google: crude but often effective
• google books: many gems are found this way
• google scholar: sometimes faster than cranking up the MIT libraries VERA database
• MIT libraries VERA electronic journals database

examples of what might be found via electronic tentacles