writing design decisions

Fighting Drug-Resistant Malaria

Read the Daily Message and record notes of important points and deliverables. (5 min)

Open and re-pin Daily Message Notes• Add today’s date and subject of the message

(Outlines to Paragraphs) at the top of the note. • Add (Copy/Paste) summary of deliverables

and/or important information under heading.

• Make sure today’s tasks are clear.

NSEI 8.1 WARM-UP

NSEI – 8 PROCESSING OUTLINE FEEDBACK

Interns read the project director’s feedback and discuss with colleagues about other examples to include and which are the strongest. (20 min)

• Your Design Decisions

paragraphs should include

multiple pieces of evidence

from different sources,

• Ken Tapaha only

commented on the

background research they

provided.


• You will first read the

feedback letters from Ken

Tapaha carefully, making

notes on how you can use

the feedback to write your

Design Decision paragraphs,

then discuss their ideas with

a colleague.


• Take notes, or make

annotations.

• These notes can include

questions they might have, or

items you want to be sure to

include in each paragraph.

You should also make notes

on how to use the feedback to

strengthen your proposals.


• The purpose of this

discussion is for you to

share the background

research evidence you

submitted to the project

director, as well as to

analyze what kinds of

changes you need to

make in order to write a

successful proposal.


• Does this example of

feedback (on the right)

indicate whether there is

enough evidence?

• Yes, because it says

“examples”; there is more

than one example, and he

doesn’t say there are not

enough examples.


• Is the evidence specific to

the criterion of patient side

effects?

• No, there’s some extra

information that is not

needed—the example

about cost; it needs

another example that is

specifically about side

effects.


• Are there other

suggestions for

improvement?

• Remember to use the

Dossier and isolated tests

to look for things specific

to side effects.


• Shares one example of

background research and

discusses the assessment

of Ken's feedback, using

the Analyzing Feedback

Letters questions as a

guide.


• When assessing whether the

examples are specific, YOU

should replace the bold text in

the example questions with

the other criteria: drug

resistance or cost.

• For example, if you are

discussing an example about

drug resistance, you should

ask, “What did the Dossier

tell you about drug resistance

for each drug?” And, “What

did you learn about drug

resistance using MalariaMed?


• Group members should

respond by helping to

identify the additional

pieces of evidence, the

strongest pieces of

evidence, and/or if the

evidence is specific to the

criterion. They should also

help suggest additional

specific evidence to support

the criterion being

discussed.

NSEI – 8 REVISING DESIGN DECISIONS

• Your writing must be

adjusted to address each

type of audience

appropriately and

effectively.

• It is important to

convince your audience

that you’ve considered

research, evidence, and

feedback in your optimal

design.

Interns write the three Design Decisions paragraphs. (20 min)

Interns will only be writing their Design Decisions paragraphs today, using their outline, notes, and

feedback from the project director, as well as the Proposal Rubric as a guide.


• Using topic-specific

vocabulary—like drug

resistance, mutation,

natural selection,

selection pressure—can

be one way to show that

you know your science

for this malaria treatment

project.

Interns write the three Design Decisions paragraphs. (20 min)

Interns will only be writing their Design Decisions paragraphs today, using their outline, notes, and

feedback from the project director, as well as the Proposal Rubric as a guide.


• You want your final

proposal to be

convincing,

demonstrating how and

why your design is

optimal. An outline of

facts and examples is

not as convincing as a

well-written argument. In

other words, you will

want to make your

reasoning about your

choices clear to people

who are reading it.


• Identify where the

information from the

outline ended up in the

paragraph.

• The first sentence “Our

design has a clean-

mouth rating of 84%

which is better than

our goal of 80%” shows

how the final result and

the goal were combined

into one strong

sentence.


• Point out which evidence

was not relevant, and

therefore not used in the

paragraph.

• Bamboo handles are

better for the

environment.


• All the pieces of

evidence from the Data

Analysis section should

go into the final

paragraph, and you

should aim for at least

two strong pieces of

evidence from the

Background Research.


There is a specific sequence they will need to follow before

they begin writing their Final Proposals in the Futura

Workspace:

•Open and pin the Proposal Outline form in Futura

Workspace.

•Open the Final Proposal form. Point out that the first section of

the Final Proposal is for the Introduction, but that interns will not

write this today. Note that there are three separate sections for

the Design Decisions.

•Copy sections from the Proposal Outline form and paste

them into the Final Proposal form. Alternatively, interns can

retype the basic information from the Proposal Outline into the

correct Design Decisions section of the Final Proposal.

•Select SAVE on the Final Proposal form. Interns do not submit

work at this time.


• Remind interns about other

resources they could use while

writing these sections, such as

the Proposal Rubric and the

“Help with your Proposal” Tips

message in your inbox.








• Save your work often, but make

sure interns do not submit,

since you will be work on the

Introduction and the

Conclusion during their next

workday.








• Save your work often, but make

sure interns do not submit,

since you will be work on the

Introduction and the

Conclusion during their next

workday.

• When you have completed the

Design Decisions paragraphs,

they should save your work

once more.

NSEI – 8 AFTER-HOURS WORK

Interns review the Daily Message Notes in Futura

Workspace to determine if they have unfinished tasks they

need to complete.

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