Helping Students Write about Science Without Plagiarizing. From: Science Scope | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Wheeler-Toppen, Jodi | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Science Teachers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Jodi Wheeler-Toppen

I want my students to have an experience as much like that of real scientists as possible. And, as I tell my students, real scientists begin with research-reading and talking to other scientists about what is already known in their field. And so, I take my students to the library to begin their search. They check out books, copy pages from magazines, and frantically search the Internet. To all appearances, they are hard at work. But invariably...

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