11Discipline-Specific Assignments
  
 

Digging Deeper Assignments

1. How do the sciences, social sciences, and humanities use numbers in text? Write a journal entry on your findings.

2. Compare the content and format of a book report for an English class, a technical report for business, and a lab report for science. Write a journal entry detailing your discoveries.

3. Research to see if you can discover why a scientific paper often repeats some information from one section to the next. In a journal entry, include where you searched for information and what you learned.

4. Research to determine why English teachers frown on the use of passive voice in writing, while sciences and social sciences condone it. In a journal entry, include where you searched for information and what you learned.

 
 

 
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