There is a variety of strategies you could use to develop a long-form essay:
Tell the story behind the researchwhat got researchers involved in the first place.
Summarize various points of view.
Create a lens of language through which you would like your audience to view the science.
Discuss the ethical implications of the research and what it might mean for the public.
Draw from philosophy or literature to express your point of view.
Make your writing descriptive with concrete details.
Rely on interviews you have conducted to tell the story.
Make astute choices about which details to include and which to leave out.
Employ a prose style that suits the publication in which your essay might appear.
Write a long-form essay of 3,000-3,300 words that does more than simply report on science, by doing the following:
Use the research article you used for your shorter news story assignment from Topic 4 and decide how you can construct a long-form essay around it. Incorporate your expert interview and other work you have done this semester to inform your piece.
Use feedback you received from your instructor on the shorter news story assignment to guide you in your writing.
Incorporate some of the above-mentioned strategies for writing a long-form essay.
Prepare this assignment using Associated Press Style.
Here is the article the paper will be based on
Day, T., & Read, A. F. (2016). Does high-dose antimicrobial chemotherapy prevent the evolution of resistance? PLoS computational biology, 12(1).
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004689
(Last note: This assignment is about turning complex science ideas into something the average person could understand)
I’ve also included previous assignments that were meant to use to build this assignment
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