Position Paper: Where to Send NASA's Next Big Mission part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments
An opinion essay (in the style of an Op-Ed) wherein students argue for sending NASA's next large mission to a particular solar system target. Arguments are based on data and (where possible) numbers.

Mining the News part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments
This is a series of short assignments that require students to locate appropriate journalistic texts and employ rhetorical analysis: Mining the News.

Exploring Security Behavior in the International System part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments

A Peer Review Guide for Poster Assignments part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments

Evaluating "Popularity" of Ancient Playwrights part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments

Evaluate alcohol use in early America part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments
An analysis of the numerical data on American drinking practices in the early nineteenth century.

Evolutionary Computation: Research Project Proposal to Analyze and Replicate the Experimental Results of a Published Research Article part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments
Students choose a published paper in a specific research field and write a research proposal as if they were the original researchers before the research was completed. The proposal included the question the paper is meant to address, the thesis or theses proposed, and the planned experiments to answer the question.

Argument Analysis Activity for Philosophy Students part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments
In this exercise, students are asked to give a careful logical analysis of a philosophical argument. This involves breaking the argument down into premises, sub-conclusions, and a main conclusion, mapping the inferential connections between the foregoing in a numbered argument, and then evaluating the resulting argument for deductive validity and soundness.

Writing Psychology Results Sections part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments

Literature and Data Search Library Session part of Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center:Writing Across the Curriculum with Numbers:Assignments
A library session focused on building upon a robust literature search in order to search for data.