User:Leslie Ann Roldan
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Contact information
- Email: lroldan@mit.edu
- Office: 12-113
- Office hours: By appointment
Writing instructor for 20.109. Lecturer II in the Writing Across the Curriculum program at MIT.
Background and Education
- 2001, PhD (Biology), MIT
- 1992, BA (English), Stanford
Prior to coming to MIT's WAC program in 2005, I was a scientific editor who commissioned and edited biology college-level text and articles for the web, and more recently Executive Director of the Cell Decision Process Center, an NIH Center of Excellence in Systems Biology. I currently teach primarily in the Biology department; my scholarly research focuses on how students develop scientific communication skills through discussion leading.
Lectures/Workshops
Resources
Note: many of the resources can fit in other categories. For example, the principles of storytelling apply to both writing and presentations.
Writing
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Story by Robert McKee
- The Science of Scientific Writing by George Gopen & Judith Swan
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
Oral presentation
- Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte
- TED: excellent examples of different presentation styles
Visualization & Design
- Presentation Zen Design by Garr Reynolds
- Visual Storytelling by Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, and Floyd Schulze
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
- Visual Strategies by Felice Frankel and Angela DePace
General inspiration
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- Brain Pickings
