Science Writing Resources from the University of British Columbia
Compiled by Alice Cassidy alice.cassidy@ubc.ca Course Coordinator for LFS 150 and SCIE 113
The Science Writing Resources for Learning (ScWRL) website provides practical resources stemming from our work with SCIE 113 and SCIE 300, another communications credit course at UBC. You will see resources for students and resources for educators, the latter including many downloadable files to use or adapt. This website is part of special projects supported by the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. The "squirrel videos" are an integral part of this site.
These short, entertaining and educational videos were designed to help students with science writing. Created with SCIE 113 and SCIE 300 in mind, we created the videos, which feature "Grammar Squirrel," based on the topics students in those two courses were most struggling with in their writing.
We created an open web page describing aspects of LFS 150 Scholarly Writing and Argumentation in Land and Food Systems. Also check the Library page linking to research skills for Scholarly Writing and Argumentation in Land and Food Systems.
Here is the open web page describing aspects of SCIE 113 First-Year Seminar in Science. Also see the companion Library web page for SCIE 113, pointing students to key links for finding and citing references for their Term Paper.