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WEC Units: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB)

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior is a small interdisciplinary department within the University’s College of Biological Sciences. The department’s 25–30 faculty members teach courses that combine theoretical, experimental, and observational research, and use both field- and laboratory-based approaches to address questions that scale up from organisms to landscapes and ecosystems. Approximately 70 undergraduate students are currently enrolled in the EEB major.

Writing Plan

Highlights:

Creation Phase(Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
Faculty in this department align with three subfields, as suggested by the department’s name. In Creation Phase, as they were hammering out their lists of disciplines-specific writing characteristics and abilities, most suggestions were prefaced with this qualification, “Well, this is probably true only in my field, but…” Invariably, however, those in the other two fields would jump in to say, “No, that’s true in my field too!” Among the more interesting writing characteristics are these: Writing in EEB addresses variation as well as pattern; writing informs both science and policy needs, and therefore addresses diverse audiences; and writing should be synthetic, pulling together results and ideas from multiple sources to reach novel conclusions.

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