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- Title
Undergraduate Science Students' Attitudes Toward and Approaches to Scientific Reading and Writing.
- Authors
Verkade, Heather; Saw Hoon Lim
- Abstract
Reading the literature is a critical part of being a scientist. Consequently, primary literature is currently being used in undergraduate teaching across the world. The primary literature can be daunting to undergraduates, and they may use strategies to avoid the deep reading and interpretation techniques that are used by an expert. In this study, a cohort of final-year undergraduate science students were surveyed to examine whether they fully read journal articles, including whether they seek to understand how the results support the conclusions. Their writing was also examined to see if they use deep or surface approaches to scientific writing. The majority of the students in this cohort report that they read the results in journal articles and show deep learning approaches by the Biggs revised Study Process Questionnaire (rSPQ), but they were very mixed in their approaches to writing. In future studies, approaches will be introduced to better train and encourage students in how to write in a scientific style.
- Subjects
UNDERGRADUATES; SCIENTISTS; SCIENCE students; READING; TECHNICAL writing
- Publication
Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016, Vol 45, Issue 4, p83
- ISSN
0047-231X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2505/4/jcst16_045_04_83