Blog Post 8.1, Production Report

So far, production on my QRG is going well. I have several images in place, a working title, and the introduction and first body section complete! For this report, I will focus on my introduction progress.

Outline Item:

• Opening: 

Explain the kind of writing style that is prevalent in geosciences. Briefly introduce each genre: Poster, Article, and Paper.

Main idea: Writing in geosciences is technical and requires mastery of technical language and concepts within the field. There are three major genre types in geosciences: Scientific Posters, Scientific Articles, and Scientific Papers.

Attention Grabbers: Interesting title and pictures of volcanic eruptions or other action-packed geologic events.


Adaption of Outline Item:

Writing About Our Planet

Irishdaniel. “Crater Lake”. July 16th, 2015 via Pixabay. Public Domain.

Joshua Smith

English 109H

Genres of Writing in Geosciences:

Writing in Geosciences is very much different from writing in other fields or majors. Those writing literature must possess a varied and colorful vocabulary, people in business must be able to use persuasive language to entice others to buy or retail a product and historians must be able to describe an event in rich detail. Scientific writing, however, typically involves the use of highly technical  and concise terminology (use of important terms and vocabulary within the field. E.g. For Geosciences: Plate Tectonics) and structure.

Coursera Blog. “Writing In The Sciences”. July 24th, 2014 via Tumblr.

While those outside of Geosciences understand that the structure, purpose and terminology of scientific writing is roughly the same throughout the field, they might not understand that there are actually at least three separate genres of writing for Geosciences.

The main genres that exist are Scientific Posters, Scientific Articles (Journals), and Scientific 

Papers. While all three are types of scientific writing, each genre has differences varying from 

context to audience to the length of the writing used to the use of technical language.