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Writing in an Advanced Undergraduate Chemistry Course: An Assignment Exploring the Development of Scientific Ideas
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A writing assignment designed for an upper-division organic chemistry course is described. Students were asked to write a paper describing the evolution of a particular scientists research. The paper had three parts. The first described the work of others in the field at the time the researcher's findings were first reported. The second traced how the researcher further developed those initial findings. Finally, the students presented a discussion of how the findings were used by others. The assignment is flexible and is easily adapted to other subject areas.
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Upper-Division UndergraduateKeywords (Domain):
Organic ChemistryKeywords (Pedagogy):
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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