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Reading assignments :
Students will be assigned reading for each class session.
THE BOOK:
You must purchase the book from a special website provided by Wiley, the publisher of Callister’s 9th edition textbook, “Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction” to allow us to use an electronic version of the book, at a very reasonable price, with a new electronic reader/annotation website called Perusall.com. This is one of the most innovative pedagogical tools available today. You will have to purchase the e-book either through the special Wiley site at this link:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-823803.html
We were able to negotiate a really good deal that is cheaper than Amazon.com’s price. You will be able to purchase either an e-book that can be read on Mac, PC, IOS, or Android) or a binder ready version, as well as access the entire text at Perusall.com during the term.
You MUST purchase the book through the special Wiley site in order to get access to the book on Perusall. Without access to the site you will not be able to earn the part of the course grade based on the annotations to the text. It is 25% of the total course grade. Everyone is required to purchase this version of the book so that you can participate in our crowdsourced reading of the book and get credit for this very important part of the course. The book will be posted on Perusall.com where you will annotate (ask and answer questions, fill in missing parts, rephrase, etc) portions of the book and read the annotations of the other students.
ANNOTATIONS:
Students will highlight sections of the text and write about it on this website. The annotations will be visible to the entire class and the instructors. Students will have the chance to rephrase difficult to understand concepts, fill in confusing steps in derivations, detect errors in the book, show better ways to illustrate the ideas than the examples in the book, ask great questions, and answer (correctly) other people's questions. Students will be graded based on the quantity and quality of their annotations. One annotation per week is too little and more than 30 annotations are too much. 10 really excellent annotations or correct answers to another student's good questions would give them full credit for the assignment as long as they are completed in time and cover all of the material. There will usually be two assignments per week, each due at noon on the day of class. Hence, you will need to make 20 annotations per week at a minimum. If a late submission window is permitted (but for half credit), then the grades will be released to the students when the final submission deadline has passed.
Below is the Rubric and an example of what great, good, and poor annotations look like.
Students will be assigned reading for each class session.
THE BOOK:
You must purchase the book from a special website provided by Wiley, the publisher of Callister’s 9th edition textbook, “Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction” to allow us to use an electronic version of the book, at a very reasonable price, with a new electronic reader/annotation website called Perusall.com. This is one of the most innovative pedagogical tools available today. You will have to purchase the e-book either through the special Wiley site at this link:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-823803.html
We were able to negotiate a really good deal that is cheaper than Amazon.com’s price. You will be able to purchase either an e-book that can be read on Mac, PC, IOS, or Android) or a binder ready version, as well as access the entire text at Perusall.com during the term.
You MUST purchase the book through the special Wiley site in order to get access to the book on Perusall. Without access to the site you will not be able to earn the part of the course grade based on the annotations to the text. It is 25% of the total course grade. Everyone is required to purchase this version of the book so that you can participate in our crowdsourced reading of the book and get credit for this very important part of the course. The book will be posted on Perusall.com where you will annotate (ask and answer questions, fill in missing parts, rephrase, etc) portions of the book and read the annotations of the other students.
ANNOTATIONS:
Students will highlight sections of the text and write about it on this website. The annotations will be visible to the entire class and the instructors. Students will have the chance to rephrase difficult to understand concepts, fill in confusing steps in derivations, detect errors in the book, show better ways to illustrate the ideas than the examples in the book, ask great questions, and answer (correctly) other people's questions. Students will be graded based on the quantity and quality of their annotations. One annotation per week is too little and more than 30 annotations are too much. 10 really excellent annotations or correct answers to another student's good questions would give them full credit for the assignment as long as they are completed in time and cover all of the material. There will usually be two assignments per week, each due at noon on the day of class. Hence, you will need to make 20 annotations per week at a minimum. If a late submission window is permitted (but for half credit), then the grades will be released to the students when the final submission deadline has passed.
Below is the Rubric and an example of what great, good, and poor annotations look like.
*Adapted from the Mazur group with permission
MSE 220 Fall 2015