Course overview
Introductions

Assignment #1: Autobiographical Summary (Write a quick 1–2-paragraph hardcopy description of yourself, including your medical plans, and bring it to the next class.)

COMMENTS: Our first class is a chance to get acquainted with each other. Be ready to interview an unknown classmate (your impromptu research subject) and think about this: When exploring someone, is it better to ask them open questions (e.g., "What are your favorite kinds of foods?") or closed questions (e.g., "Do you own a car?"). How do our choices about investigation strategies frame the subjects we explore?

NOTE: To be placed on the HPA's listserver, go to: <http://healthsciences.duels.ucsb.edu/>

Student questionnaire

Working with headings, subheadings, and bullets

Document layout basics

Writing resumes

Assignment #2: Resume/CV and personal statement (optional)

COMMENTS: Resumes and CVs are "survival documents" that every student should know how to generate on demand. Moreover, they are "living documents" that change and adapt to your needs throughout your life. In this class we will also outline what a personal statement is and how to write yours.

Readings: see Week 1 reading schedule

Join HPA listserve

UCSB Career Manual: resumes

APT writing: audience, purpose, tone [with particular attention to intended medical audiences]. Sample links:

"Starting Chemotherapy" (Chemotherapy.com)

"[Obesity] Prevention, Strategies and Guidelines" (CDC)

"Changes You Can Make to Manage High Blood Pressure" (American Heart Assoc.)

Journal Club: Paulina; Jamie

Readings: see Week 1 reading schedule

Peer review of resumes in class (bring an extra copy)

Hardcopy business correspondence and cover letters

Journal Club: Derek; Demitri; Charlotte

Readings: see Week 2 reading schedule, esp.UCSB Career Manual: cover letters

Assignment #2
Resume / CV

See links under "Assignment #2" on the Writing 109HP help page for readings and websites related to this assignment.

Personal statements and CVs

Interviews and interviewing

Journal Club: Erin; Evana; Tal

Reading: see Week 2 reading schedule

UCSB Career Manual: CVs

Scientific methodology, writing and the peer review (refereeing) publication process

Lecture: "Scientific and medical literacy: past present and future."

Assignment #3: Analytical assignment

Journal Club: Meghana; Michael; Wilma

*Don't forget to schedule an office meeting to discuss your (optional) personal statement

Scientific methodology, writing and the peer review (refereeing) publication process
(Part 2)

Review of scholarly open-access publishing. We will begin our discussion by discussing the "Beall list," which is no longer active.

Research strategies

Peer review of cover letters in class (bring an extra copy)

Journal Club: Lyllian; Tiffany; Shwena

Reading: see Week 3 reading schedule

Cover letter due
(bring two copies)

Writing educational document, PSAs, and "how-to's"

Assignment #4: Public service health announcement

Writing the research paper

Journal Club: Ammar; Josephine; Steven

Researching via the UCSB Davidson Library

Working with numeric data

Mortality and morbidity: lessons from the cemetery

Journal Club: Eli; Blake; Nick

Reading: see Week 4 reading schedule

Public speaking

Preparing an oral presentation

Assignment #5: Reflective Assignment

Journal Club: Hamid; Cameron

Writing a health history

Assignment #6: Health history

Quoting, paraphrasing, and avoiding plagiarism

Journal Club: Cristian

Reading: see Week 5 reading schedule

Metaphor and analogy in communicating with readers and patients

Journal Club: TBA

In-class drafting of research paper guidelines

2019 WRITER'S GUIDELINES FOR 109HP (TBA)

Visual rhetoric: using graphics with medical prose

Journal Club: Maren; Paula

Assignment #3

Catch-up day on writing skills and questions before presentations

Students presenting: Maren, Erin

Presentations

Assignment #4

Students presenting: Evana, Derek, Paulina, Michael, Tal

Presentations

Assignment #5

Students presenting: Charlotte, Wilma, Nick, Tiffany, Jamie

Presentations

Students presenting: Eli, Blake, Ammar, Steven, Lyllian

Presentations

**** THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY ****

Students presenting: Hamid, Paula, Demetri, Cameron, Josephine

Presentations

Students presenting: Cristian, Maghana, Schwena

Course evals

Presentations

Assignment #6

All assignments, including final rewrites, are due NLT today. Please deliver your assignments in person to my office, or leave them the blue drop box outside of SH 3431.