CHED 1700 |
| Writing is the primary means of communicating chemistry, but writing skills are often neglected in the chemistry curriculum. To reverse this trend, we have developed instructional materials (targeting the journal article, poster, and research proposal) to help chemistry faculty teach their students to write. The materials have been piloted at 16 institutions and used or reviewed by over 300 students and 40 faculty. The materials will culminate in a textbook, Write Like a Chemist, under contract with Oxford University Press for publication in 2008. As a result of this project, we have learned a great deal about challenges students face as they first try to communicate their science. For this presentation, we will distill those challenges into a “ten to watch” list, spanning issues of audience, organization, and writing conventions. Related instructional activities will be shared, focusing on those most easily integrated into existing upper-division or graduate chemistry courses.
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Communicating Chemistry
8:30 AM-11:55 AM, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N227B, Level 2, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |