Undergraduate chemistry students' scientific writing: analysis of laboratory reports

Quimica nova

Oliveira, Jane Raquel Silva de¹  Batista, Alzir Azevedo¹  Queiroz, Salete Linhares² 

[1] Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brasil;Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brasil

关键词: chemistry;    laboratory reports;    argumentation.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-40422010000900029

学科分类：化学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Quimica

【 摘 要 】

The purpose ofthis study was to analyze written arguments found within laboratory reportsby undergraduate students in a practical inorganic chemistry course. The qualityof students' argumentation was analyzed based on the argumentation model developedby Kelly and Takao. Students presented scientific arguments grounded in dataand building toward theoretical assertions. This indicates that students havesome understanding of the rhetorical power of data in their explanations. Thefindings of this study also support the idea that Kelly and Takao's model iseffective in other disciplines and in other rhetorical tasks distinct from thoseoriginally analyzed by them in their domain of oceanography.

【 授权许可】

CC BY