All Comprehension skills articles – Page 2

Feature

Making chemical language easy

2016-08-15T00:00:00Z

Ann Marie Farrell and Michael Seery consider how to meet students’ language and literacy needs within chemistry

Feature

Designing skilful chemists

2016-06-27T00:00:00Z

David Smith discusses the importance of employability skills for chemists

Feedback

Reading, models and evaluations

2015-11-09T00:00:00Z

Discussions from the magazine, blog, website and social media

Resource

A guide to a successful viva

This guide aims to give you guidance on how to prepare for your viva, some suggestions of what to do beforehand and on the day, and a few pointers to consider during the viva itself. 

Analysis

Reading lessons for scientists

2015-09-08T08:55:00Z

Ben Rogers asks: do students need to be taught to read scientific texts?

Resource

World wide web treasure hunt

This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on information retrieval.

Resource

Scientific papers

This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on comprehension and problem solving.

Resource

Dictionary of interesting chemistry

This book can address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on information retrieval/report writing.

Ideas

Student posters on chemistry topics

2014-03-03T11:59:00Z

This post discusses the use of student generated posters and includes a video guide for students on how to prepare posters