{"id":568,"date":"2017-08-17T06:27:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T06:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/wac\/?p=568"},"modified":"2017-08-17T06:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T06:27:48","slug":"a-narrative-assignment-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.writing.wisc.edu\/wac\/a-narrative-assignment-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Narrative Assignment in Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"568\" class=\"elementor elementor-568 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-sbrtqyj elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-items-top elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"sbrtqyj\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-narrow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-gllizas\" data-id=\"gllizas\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-kflexqc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"kflexqc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Professor Cathy Middlecamp,\nIntegrated Liberal Studies 251\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-vujxvsu elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"vujxvsu\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-pqjwdqh\" data-id=\"pqjwdqh\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-srrmjov elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"srrmjov\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Project #2 &#8211; Radioactivity and People<\/strong><\/p><p>ILS 251 has several higher order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chem.wisc.edu\/middlecamp\/251-spring12\/251goals.htm\">learning goals<\/a>. One is that you are able to take what you learn in one context and apply it to another. This project offers you the opportunity. We hope you will enjoy it. To quote a former student, the project was \u201cone of my favorites to work on in my college career!\u201d<\/p><p>GRADING: Please check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chem.wisc.edu\/middlecamp\/251-spring12\/Project-2criteria.htm\">grading criteria<\/a> and due dates for all parts of this project.<\/p><p>OVERVIEW: This semester, you have encountered two stories in which people and radioactive substances were intimately connected. The first was the Radium Girls; the second the Firecracker Boys. Your task is to find a third story\u2014anywhere on the planet\u2014that involves people and radioactivity.<\/p><p>VIEW FROM A STUDENT: Lindsay wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chem.wisc.edu\/middlecamp\/251-spring12\/documents\/A%20How-to%20on%20Integrating%20Science%20and%20Culture.pdf\">this essay<\/a> for future students taking ILS 251. Her project<br \/> was closely connected with art, one of her interests. Her research connected her to the sculpture of <br \/> Tony Price, an atomic artist and peace activist. To quote Lindsay, \u201cI found Tony Price and immediately knew he was my guy.\u201d<\/p><p>EXAMPLES: Please examine these topics from previous years. Each concerns <u>both<\/u> people and radioactive substances. The people are citizens in a city or town, an indigenous group, those living at a particular location, or perhaps those carrying out a common job or mission. The radioactivity may involve\u00a0contamination of the land, leukemia or lung cancer, the disposal of nuclear waste, testing of <br \/> atomic weapons, nuclear accidents, the medical experimentation with radioisotopes, or perhaps just having a radioisotope in the wrong place at the wrong time.<\/p><ul><li>Storing Nuclear Waste on Tribal Lands &#8211; Yucca Mountain<\/li><li>Depleted Uranium (DU) in Iraq &#8211; A Weapon of Mass Destruction<\/li><li>The H-Bomb and the Marshallese People<\/li><li>Plutonium and the Workers at Kerr McGee Corporation<\/li><li>The Palomares Incident in Spain<\/li><li>The Secret Disaster at Mayak<\/li><\/ul><p>YOUR TOPIC: You each need your own area of inquiry. Accordingly, you must confirm your topic <br \/> with your instructor before you begin your research. If you wish to work on a particular topic, claim it early.\u00a0Once your instructor has all of the topics, she will group them according to a master plan (optimistically she can find one). You will know the date of your presentation before spring break.<\/p><p>YOUR PAPER: Mid-semester, you will submit a polished 5-page paper. Your paper must present the reader with a thesis; that is, a point of view that you introduce and later revisit in your conclusion. The <br \/> first version should be your best work (NOT a \u201cdraft\u201d) because several of us are going to invest significant time &amp; energy in reviewing what you wrote. Please use this format:<\/p><ul><li>Software Microsoft Word<\/li><li>Format Double-spaced, 1 inch margins, 12-point font, page numbers at bottom center<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Page 1 Title, your name, date, &amp; name of your Writing Fellow<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Page 2-6 Body of your paper<\/li><li>Page 7+ Any figures, tables, photographs<\/li><li>Final page References. 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