Paper writing in a science major

comfortablycurt
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:46:28 +0000

It’s going to vary some from school to school, but the writing components in most ‘hard’ science majors isn’t really that heavy. You’ll have to take some GenEd college level composition, but beyond that it really just depends on the classes you take.

Some of the GenEd classes will have heavier writing components. History classes tend to have a lot of writing, as do some other classes like psychology and philosophy. The sociology and anthropology classes I’ve taken both had essay based exam structures, usually coming down to about 4-6 pages worth of writing on an exam.

As far as the science classes go though, they aren’t real writing heavy outside of lab reports. Honors sections of courses often involve a cumulative research project or something of that nature that will involve a research paper. I’m in honors sections of both physics and calculus right now, and both involve 10-15 page research papers. I’m also in an honors section of chemistry, but the honors portion of that is basically all lab based. I’ve gotta write up lab reports too, but those are usually pretty brief and more to the point.