The Science Writing Heuristic
This paper describes an alternative format students use for their laboratory reports, and a teaching technique to help format the flow of activities associated with an experiment. Instead of responding to the five traditional sections, purpose, methods, observations, results and conclusions, students are expected to respond to prompts eliciting questioning, knowledge claims, evidence, description of data and observations, methods, and to reflect on changes to their own thinking.
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