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Title: Combining Chemistry and College Writing: A New Model for an Honors Undergraduate Chemistry Course (Curricular Designs)
Author : Honors in Practice
Release Date : January 01, 2009
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 234 KB

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Faculty in the Departments of Chemistry and English at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have designed and implemented an innovative, writingintensive, advanced, second-semester chemistry course combined with a laboratory component that satisfies both second semester General Chemistry and College Writing criteria. This unusual configuration differs from typical honors chemistry courses because of its "writing to learn" approach to teaching indepth scientific content, the nature of research, and research methods. The opportunity to develop this course emerged from a collaborative relationship between our institution's Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program and our chemistry department. While most writing intensive initiatives, such as the "Writing like a Chemist" project (Stoller, Jones, Costanza-Robinson, & Robinson, 2005), are designed for upper-division courses (Goodman & Bean, 1983; Paulson, 2001; Stoller, 2005; Shibley, 2001; Whelan & Zare, 2003), some attempts have been made to incorporate writing at the freshman level; these include parallel courses that require students to be "co-registered" in a writing course that is linked with a science course taught by professors of the respective disciplines (Griffin, 1985; Wilkinson, 1985). Other initiatives include using laboratory reports that incorporate more extensive writing than traditional laboratory reports (Kovac & Sherwood, 1999; Tilstra, 2001). The Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) is an example of this approach (Greenbowe & Hand, 2005; Hand & Keys, 1999; Keys & Hand, 1999; Rudd & Greenbowe, 2001; Rudd & Greenbowe, 2002). To the best of our knowledge, however, no course that combines first-year chemistry and English has been developed before.