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Lab reports and science books
Title:
Lab reports and science books
Personal Author EPSB:
Year Published:
2013
Physical Description:
ix, 136 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Contents:
Learning to write about science -- Studying a mentor text : procedural writing -- New wonderings, new experiments -- Authors share scientific ideas/conclusions -- Scientists learn from other sources as well as from experiments -- Student self-assessment and plans -- Remember all you know about science and about scientific writing for new experiments -- Studying a mentor text : the "results" page -- Comparing results and reading more expert materials to consider new questions -- Designing and writing a new experiment -- Editing : domain-specific language -- Drawing on all we know to rehearse and plan information books -- Tapping our informational know-how for drafting -- Studying mentor texts : integrating scientific information -- Using comparisons to teach readers -- Showing hidden worlds with science writing -- Introductions and conclusions : addressing an audience -- Editing : aligning expectations to the common core -- Celebration : writing and science exhibition.
ISBN:
9780325047294
Publisher:
Portsmouth, NH : Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann, [2013]