Learning to Write Like a Scientist: A Writing-Intensive Course for Microbiology/Health Science Students.

ABSTRACT: Learning the tools and conventions of expert communication in the sciences provides multiple benefits to bioscience students, yet often these skills are not formally taught. To address this need, we designed a writing-intensive microbiology course on emerging infectious diseases to provide upper-division students with science-specific writing skills along with disciplinary course content. The course followed the guidelines of our university's Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) program. Students wrote a press release, a case study, a controversy/position paper, and a grant prospectus, and revised drafts after feedback. To assess the course, in 2015 and 2016 we administered pre-post surveys and collected writing samples for analysis. Students reported on their experience, training, skills, a

SUBMITTER: Grzyb K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5969401 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature