Writing Science Right: Strategies for Teaching Scientific and Technical Writing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138302679)

Help your students improve their science understanding and communicate their knowledge more effectively. Writing Science Right shows you the best ways to teach content-area writing so that students can share their learning and discoveries through informal and formal writing assignments and oral presentations.

You'll teach students how to...

• identify their audience and an appropriate organizational structure for their writing;
• achieve a readable style by knowing the reader's background knowledge;
• build effective sentences and concise paragraphs;
• prepare and deliver oral presentations that bring content to life;
• use major science articles, abstracts, and summaries as mentor texts;
• and more!

Throughout the book, you'll find a wide variety of sample articles and suggested assignments that you can use immediately. In addition, a list of additional teaching texts and resources is available on the Routledge website at www.routledge.com/9781138302679.