Bio 100 LW
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Taught collaboratively by LARC Writing Specialists and instructors from the School of Biological Sciences, Biological Science 100LW is a combination laboratory and writing course that satisfies the upper-division writing requirement. It teaches the laboratory and communication skills that students need to become working scientists. Assignments include summaries of current scientific literature and a lab report on the subject of photosynthesis. Click below for helpful information on these assignments.

Getting Off to a Good Start in Biology 100LW: the summary assignment
Model Summary One: A Study of the Adaptive Function of Snake Scales
Model Summary Two: A Scaleless Snake: Tests of the Role of Reptilian Scales
Annotated Examples of A, B, and C Summaries with Rewritten Versions
Experimental Design in "Scaleless Snake"
Unit #2: Coherence
Unit #3: Revision
Transitions and Connectors

Credits

 Model Summaries one and two were written by Bio Sci 100LW instructors and annotated by LARC staff. larc writing specialist james culhane contributed "getting off to a good start," "coherence," and "Revision." "Annotated Summaries with rewritten versions," which was funded by a grant from the campus writing coordinator, was supplied by larc writing specialist richard nester.

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