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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Science writing"”.
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"It is written": representations of determinism in contemporary popular science writing and contemporary British fiction
… the representation of two broad fields of science – the new physics (relativity and quantum mechanics) and the modern biological synthesis (genetics and evolutionary theory) – in two genres of writing – popular science writing and narrative fiction. Specifically, I consider the …
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Writing-to-Learn in High-School Chemistry: The Effects of Using the Science Writing Heuristic to Increase Scientific Literacy
<p>Writing-to-Learn in High-School Chemistry: The Effects of Using the Science Writing Heuristic to Increase Scientific Literacy</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) as an instructional tool to improve academic …
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Rice : how the most genetically versatile grain conquered the World
Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2003.
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Atlantic crossings
Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2003.
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Looking at ADHD : a personal exploration of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2003.
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Artificial intelligence and musical creativity : computing Beethoven's tenth
Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2003.
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
… study examines two major genres of scientific writing: academic journal articles and popular science magazine articles. The first aim is to improve the efficacy of writing in the sciences by providing a better understanding of genre conventions and effective linguistic choices. The second aim …
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The impact of teacher and peer dialogue on online collaborative writing in an authentic science literacy learning environment
This research is concerned with authentic science writing, and in particular, investigating collaborative science writing at secondary school level, using an online collaborative-writing environment. Specifically, it investigates how measures of successful authenticity relate to (i) how close to …
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Integrating Journal Writing With Inquiry Based Science Instruction In A Second Grade Classroom
… research study investigated the effects of using science journals to promote science writing and to investigate changes in student attitudes in a second grade inquiry-based science class. This was an action research study in which qualitative and quantitative data was collected. The data was …
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Fictive Text: A Narrative Source for Communicating Experience in Higher Education Research
… for locating the new narrative forms in social science writing. Additionally, several key devices which influence current qualitative inquiry are also considered: ethnographic text, the hermeneutic perspective, and the use of analogy and metaphor. A special emphasis is placed on the college …
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The Rhetoric of Natural History and Philip Henry Gosse
… to re-contextualize the genre of natural history writing along with rhetorical theory to delineate an argument for examining the rhetoric of natural history as a method for exploring the spatial, symbolic, and ecological relationships between collected specimens and their cultural, historical, and …
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Subjugated scientific knowledges : detecting the Victorian female scientist
… fiction by exploring the female experience of science in fiction and in reality. The impact of culture, society and traditional notions of female ‘knowing’ are explored. Real-life women scientists’ work is considered in addition to fictional creations. Firstly, the research explores women such …
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Extending Students' Practice of Metacognitive Regulation Strategies in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory and Investigation of Pb2+ Binding to Calmodulin with Circular Dichroism and Molecular Dynamics Modeling
… engaged in an instructional environment, the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH), that was characterized as supporting metacognitive regulation strategy use. Through in-depth interviews with students, results demonstrated that students in the SWH environment, compared to non-SWH students, used …
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I carry you in my heart : facing an incurable prenatal diagnosis
Prenatal diagnosis has given doctors the ability to predict problems before a child is even born. But what happens when the information gleaned from these tests is that the child is fatally sick? Doctors call these "futile" pregnancies. The increasing sophistication and prevalence of prenatal …
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Don't call it a seagull!
Many people assume there's only one kind of "seagull." On the contrary, the world is home to dozens of gull species spanning an array of shapes, sizes, plumage patterns, behaviors, and lifestyles (and some of those gulls aren't affiliated with the sea at all). The pattern of similarities and …
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Interview with an octopus
… result of projection, and that animal behavior science ought to take a more quantitative and experimental approach to studies of behavior. The case of the octopus is a valuable opportunity to consider how we as humans go about observing animal behavior. The contentious debate over whether to …
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Heart of darkness
… This thesis explores how black holes became science from pseudoscience, focusing on three shifts in astronomy: detailed proper motion measurements of stars zooming around the galactic center, the discovery of the apparent relationship between galaxies and their central super massive black …
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Searching for life where the sun don't shine : explorations to the seafloors of Earth and Europa
Hydrothermal vents on Earth's seafloor host entire ecosystems that live off energy from chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis. This energy process uses chemical reactions between metals and hot gases from inside Earth's mantle to fuel thriving communities of exotic organisms. Some researchers …
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The clearest mirror : the science of laughing and crying
… there emerges a puzzle of psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and neurology slowly snapping together.
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Drinking up the desert
As one of the fastest-growing cities in America, Tucson, Arizona suffers from a classic case of urban sprawl. Fueled by the prevalence of lot splits and cheap suburban land, little was done to curb the city's unsustainable growth until 1998, when the discovery of endangered pygmy owls in Tucson …
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