Geology 100W: Technical Writing Workshop
Spring, 1999
Paper #4
Assignment: Turn in a 3 - 4 page double-spaced paper that describes a Geology Club presentation you attended. In addition to a review of the content covered, include some commentary about the experience.
Intended audience: Another Bay Area college hosts a lecture series for its Geology Club. The organizers of that club would like some feedback on the content of the talk and the overall effectiveness of the lecturer. Based on your comments, the organizers may decide to invite this lecturer to their campus. Assume that the people reading your critique are lower-division geology majors.
Goal: You are writing a review of an event; you will have to summarize the topic discussed, and judge its appropriateness for a general lower-division geology club audience. You should also include some information about the organization of the talk, and how the material was presented (i.e., did the lecturer make use of any multi-media equipment?). A brief evaluation/recommendation would also be appreciated by the other college.
The Geology Club schedule follows. A few lectures will be added to this schedule; note that some will not be held on Mondays.
Spring 1999 Geology Club Schedule
| M 2/1 | 12:30 | DH306 | Charles Bacon, USGS | The Great Eruption of Mt. Mazama, and the Formation of Crater Lake |
| TH 2/4 | 12:30 | DH306 | Marith Reheis, USGS-Denver | Pleistocene Lake Lahontan |
| M 2/8 | 12:30 | DH306 | Kenneth Bencala, USGS | Stream-Catchment Connections: In fluence in Acidic Streams |
| M 2/15 | 12:30 | DH306 | Paula Messina, SJSU | Which Way Did They Go? A Sliding Rock Update |
| M 2/22 | 12:30 | DH306 | Linda Dorn, SCVWD | Santa Clara Groundwater Basin & MTBE |
| M 3/1 | 12:30 | DH306 | Jeffrey Seitz, CSU Hayward | Experimental Studies of Geologic Fluids: Thermodynamics and Specroscopy |
| M 3/8 | 12:30 | DH306 | Jim Gardner, USGS | The Week Lake Tahoe Disappeared |
| M 3/15 | 12:30 | DH306 | TBA | TBA |
| M 3/22 | 12:30 | DH306 | David Clague, MBARI | Hawaiian Submarine Geology |
| M 4/5 | 12:30 | DH306 | Atilla Aydin, Stanford University | TBA |
| M 4/12 | 12:30 | DH306 | Arthur Ford, USGS | Geology and Petrology of the Jurassic Dufek Intrusion |
| M 4/19 | 12:30 | DH306 | Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, USGS | Stratiform zinc-lead mineralization in the Yukon-Tanama Upland |
| Paper IV Due 4/21 | ||||
| M 4/26 | 12:30 | DH306 | Nate Berube, Helge Alsleben, John Siskowic, Bob Bogar, Cindy Hayek, SJSU | TBA |
| M 5/3 | 12:30 | DH306 | Bruce Richmond, USGS | El Niño and La Niña Effects Along the Santa Cruz Coast |
| M 5/10 | 12:30 | DH306 | Roy A. Bailey, USGS | Long Valley Caldera |
| TBA | TBA | TBA | Annual Picnic | |
Suggestions: During the presentation, take good notes! Detailed notes will allow you to remember salient points; you can always organize your ideas later on. Present observations of how engaged the audience was, how clear the presentation was, whether you found it informative and/or confusing, etc. Although the presenter is not among the group who would read your paper, you are also encouraged to include suggestions on how you would have changed the presentation to make it more effective.
Your grade will be based on: