English for Scientists – Materials

Lecturer  Peter Monnerjahn, BA

Overview

Available teaching materials to be used in class:

• Linguistic material
  – Pronunciation
  – Tenses
  – Punctuation
  – Helpful phrases

• Articles and other illustrative texts
  – Stephen J. Gould: Dinosaur in a Haystack / Hooking Leviathan by its Past
  – Sir David King: Just suppose it was us
  – Stephen J. Gould: The Median Isn’t the Message
  – Ann Druyan on Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe…
  – Gopen/Swan: The Science of Scientific Writing
  – Gould/Lewontin: The Spandrels of San Marco
  – Hwang et al.: Evidence of a Pluripotent Human Embryonic Stem Cell Line