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(Reference retrieved automatically from SciELO through information on FAPESP grant and its corresponding number as mentioned in the publication by the authors.)

Undergraduate chemistry students' scientific writing: analysis of laboratory reports

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Author(s):
Jane Raquel Silva de Oliveira [1] ; Alzir Azevedo Batista [2] ; Salete Linhares Queiroz [3]
Total Authors: 3
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Departamento de Química - Brasil
[2] Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Departamento de Química - Brasil
[3] Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Química de São Carlos - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 3
Document type: Journal article
Source: Química Nova; v. 33, n. 9, p. 1980-1986, 2010-00-00.
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze written arguments found within laboratory reports by undergraduate students in a practical inorganic chemistry course. The quality of students' argumentation was analyzed based on the argumentation model developed by Kelly and Takao. Students presented scientific arguments grounded in data and building toward theoretical assertions. This indicates that students have some understanding of the rhetorical power of data in their explanations. The findings of this study also support the idea that Kelly and Takao's model is effective in other disciplines and in other rhetorical tasks distinct from those originally analyzed by them in their domain of oceanography. (AU)