20.109(S18) Class blog

This blog is visible by all current and former members of the 20.109 community (teachers & students) so your comments should be as respectful and thoughtful as any you'd make in person. You can be controversial but you should not be rude or insulting. Your digital comments will also persist long past the time you're in this class so please don't make any comments that could be misconstrued or misinterpreted in the future.  Things you can’t do Publish MIT's logo since that might be construed as MIT endorsement of your views Publish photographs with people’s names tagged Publish rude or malicious comments/statements  Plagiarize a blog post from a past semester -- be creative and use your own experiences!  Thank you for adding to the community by documenting your experiences in this class. Happy bioengineering!

Everyone will contribute four reflective blog posts during the semester and the grade will be part of the participation score. The due dates for the posts are listed on the Schedule page of the course wiki. Possible blog topics Below are some suggested topics with prompts to get you thinking. You do not need to address these questions specifically, but your own creative posts should match the depth of these prompting questions.  The hardest part of scientific writing for me is… Best completed after your M1 writing assignment : You’ve just completed your first major science communication assignments in 20.109. The culminating writing assignments for Module 1 contained the major building blocks of a technical journal article: an abstract and the meat of the paper – the data and analysis. Although scientific writers usually end up at a similar endpoint, most people get there by following slightly different paths. For example, I find it particularly useful to write my Method