2025 - SEB Course on Writing Research Papers
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The Society for Ethnobotany is offering a course in writing research papers to members who are students or recent graduates. We hope this course will improve your writing skills and allow you to meet your peers in the Society – establishing part of your life-time ethnobotany peer network. The course will meet online using Zoom. Each class period will be 55 minutes long. Course Schedule: The course will meet once a week for 9 weeks (22 January 2025 to 19 March 2025). There will be two sections with 12 students per section. We are offering sections at 7 a.m. Eastern Time (New York) and 7 p.m. Eastern Time (New York). By offering the course at two times participants in any time zone should be able to enroll. Check to see what these two times are in your time zone. Cost: The course is free and open only to members of the Society for Ethnobotany. Text: Students will receive a free pdf copy of “Writing Science” by Joshua Schimel. Students will need to download free ebook software to use the pdf copy. Regular Adobe programs will not allow you to read the book. Expectations: DO NOT ENROLL FOR THIS COURSE IF YOU CANNOT MAKE THE NECESSARY TIME COMMITMENT. The estimated out-of-class work time will be about 2 to 5 hours per week. The actual amount will vary depending upon the difficulty of the assignment and the student’s level of English language proficiency. Each week there will be a written assignment that will be peer-reviewed by other students. If you apply you should be ready to read, write, and submit your work by Saturday before the next Wednesday. You will be assigned the work of another student and you must complete your review by Monday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Because other students depend on your participation your attendance is mandatory. You will only be allowed to miss one class period. Most of the class period will be spent discussing student work. Registration: Apply on or before 6 December 2024 by sending an email to blairorr@ymail.com (note: ymail, not gmail) that includes: your name: Undergraduate preferred time: Only 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time One paragraph on what you hope to achieve in the course and how you plan to meet your goals: Registration is not based upon the order we receive applications. Class time preference and a balance across Oceania, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, and North America will be considered. Graduate students will be given preference while considering geographic balance. Society members who have taken the class in the past may retake the class if there is space remaining after new students have registered. Certification: Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion. You can find a syllabus here. |
