All Literacy articles – Page 4
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Feature
Learning to write in chemistry
Michael Seery highlights the importance of carefully-designed writing activities in enabling students to build their scientific writing skills
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Review
Reading and writing in science
Kristy Turner reviews the second edition of Reading and writing in science: tools to develop discplinary literacy
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Key transferable skills for science students
A new essential reference guide for science students. Learn how to: give a presentation, write a report, manage your time and prepare a poster.
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Oral communication skills - Presentation exercise
This resource focuses on oral presentations and outlines an exercise students can do to develop their oral communication skills. The scenario used in the exercise is giving a presentation as part of a company’s annual review process.
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Hwuche-Hwuche bark
Communication skills are an essential part of all university degree courses. In general, communication skills are developed throughout undergraduate courses via a range of activities and many departments already have substantial parts of their course aimed at transferable skills. The book ‘Communicating Chemistry’ contains a number of exercises that can ...
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Future Cities project
Set your learners a problem-based case study with a sustainable development project
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Poster presentations
This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on poster presentations.
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New chemist article
This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on writing a concise report.
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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.
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Opinion
Using video for lab reports
Michael Seery discusses how creating videos in the lab can improve students' practical skills
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Opinion
The beauty of language in chemistry
In chemistry we are blessed with a rich text with words influenced by languages from across the world. What are your favourite words and phrases in chemistry?
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Opinion
Learning to write about chemistry
How might we include meaningful writing assignments in our curriculum?