Reading and Writing Taught in a Sophomore Course on Plate Tectonics

From: Journal of Geoscience Education | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Students' writing skills develop with their reading skills. Here I provide a five-step approach to reading a paper, and four criteria (the "four C": content, clarity, coherence, and craft) to structure writing and revising of a manuscript. I used these in a sophomore course on plate tectonics. In the first part of the course students read and summarized original papers, while in the second part they synthesized a contentious or recently resolved issue. Both parts stressed the importance of revising drafts. During the course, feedback on drafts and revisions shifted from comments by ...

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