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Introduction to the Use of Primary Organic Chemistry Literature in an Honors Sophomore-Level Organic Chemistry Course
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This paper describes the use of primary organic chemistry literature in an honors sophomore-level organic chemistry course. The main goal is to expose students to the primary literature of organic chemistry, demonstrating how they can understand and benefit from using it. The assignment encouraged students to communicate about organic chemistry with colleagues and professors and addresses issues in chemical education such as scientific writing, understanding the scientific process, relating lecture material to the real world, and conducting literature searches. Finally, the assignment complements other courses at the University of Massachusettes at Amherst in the evolution of scientific writing and journal skills for chemistry majors. The student evaluation of this assignment, consisting of surveys, focus groups, and anecdotal comments, were positive and argued for its usefulness and continuation. The details of the evaluative instruments and their results are provided. These include how the students located a suitable primary journal paper, which journals they choose to use, and how we plan to change this course in the future. Although we taught the honors sections of the second-semester sophomore organic chemistry course, we believe this assignment has applicability to the general organic courses.
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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