Description
The University of Hong Kong
CAES9820: Academic English for Science Students
Key Information Assessment 2
PSA Partial Draft PSA Final Draft
Weighting: 0% Weighting: 30%
Word Count: 550 Word count: 1100
Deadline: 18th October, 2023 Deadline: 15th November, 2023
Guidelines
You will be writing a feature article for an online popular science journal called HKU Scientist. (Please refer to the section in Assessment 1 on Feature Articles.) The most outstanding PSAs will be considered for publication, and we may contact you after the course has finished to ask for your permission to publish your article.
Assessment 2: Popular Science Article
- Identify and make use of the key characteristics of writing for a non-specialist audience, i.e., readers of the HKU Scientist Magazine, e.g. explaining complex ideas, stance, strength of claims, showing the credibility of the researcher.
Specific points that you should note about the PSA are:
- The word limit is between 1100 words for the final draft. This includes only the text of your article and not the title, text in visuals or the reference list. If you do not meet or if you exceed the word limit your grade will be penalised. (Please refer to the assessment rubric for penalties.)
- As with the PSA Topic Proposal, the PSA must focus primarily on an academic research paper (main source) which reports on a scientific discovery or a breakthrough and was published from September 2021 onwards. Failure to do this will result in an F for content and making only superficial mention of this research will severely affect your final grade. At least half of your article should discuss the main source.
- It is important that your PSA is written with the audience of the HKU Science Magazine in mind and that personal views and perspectives be explicitly communicated based on contextually relevant phenomena and/or experiences relevant to yourself and your readers.
- It is crucial that you draw on aspects of everyday experiences pertinent to the context of the HKU community gien the need to speak directly to your given audience, i.e., readers of the HKU Scientist magazine.
- We would encourage you to discuss related research which can be authored/co-authored by researchers based in Hong Kong or from around the world to provide comparison and further explanation.
- The main focus of your article should be on the recent research (i.e., from September 2021 onwards); however, it is possible to compare this recent research with earlier research if you think this would help the reader understand the topic more easily or be of interest to the reader (e.g., giving a brief history and background to artificial enzyme research before discussing the latest developments).
- A minimum of 4 academically appropriate sources must be used in addition to the main source.
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