Directed Readings Environmental Sciences Opinion Editorials

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

The purpose of the Directed Readings Environmental Sciences Opinion Editorials course is to give students a better understanding of the process of writing Opinion Editorials about Environmental Sciences issues. There is already a long-standing tradition of experts writing Opinion Editorials to affect change but this can be a difficult medium for science professionals to master given the contrasting nature to the usual technical writing in the discipline. Students will meet one to two hours a week at a mutually convenient time and place to discuss existing, published Opinion Editorials and then use those discussions to revise and update the Opinion Editorials they have already produced during their participation in the ES major capstone course, Current Topics in Environmental Sciences. The revisions of their Opinion Editorials will take place in their own time.