CHED 472 |
| Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada is a comprehensive research university that has recently implemented a transformation of its undergraduate curriculum, with a significant focus on integrating writing-intensive learning across the disciplines. This presentation will focus on the challenges of implementing writing-intensive learning into a second year inorganic chemistry laboratory course. The writing-intensive objectives for the course are intended to improve students' ability to effectively communicate scientific discovery and understanding as well as to improve critical analysis and scientific problem solving while engaged in lab activities. We will outline the emphasis placed on writing in the laboratory notebook, the use of low stakes (writing to learn) assignments to scaffold the formal features of the laboratory report and the process of feedback and revision to describe how a writing-intensive course curriculum can be implemented to support content learning in the laboratory context. |
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Writing in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum
1:30 PM-4:20 PM, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 San Francisco Marriott -- Salon 10, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |