Two books you might take a look at:
/The Best American Science Writing 2006/ (ed. A. Gawande). Harper Perennial.
/A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National
Association of Science Writers/ (D.Blum, M. Knudsen, R. Marantz Henig,
eds.). Oxford, 2006.
The first one would give students something to read and critique; the
second one gives advice about how to actually do this kind of writing.
If the class really is 250 students, I'm guessing you won't be doing a
whole lot of that, though.
Roger Graves
Deborah Knott wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
> Here is another one that might be of interest:
>
> Understanding Scientific Prose, ed. Jack Selzer
>
> The essays in this collection each present a rhetorical analysis of
> the same research article by Stephen .J. Gould. Gould responds at the
> end of the volume. Essays by Bazerman, Fahnestock, Charney, Myers,
> etc. Not sure it would serve as a text, but you might find some
> useful materials in it.
> Deborah
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