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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (3): 549–553.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Bev Hogue Why would an English professor enroll in an upper-level biology class? This article describes an experiment in interdisciplinarity: an English professor takes a class titled Scientific Imaging in order to enhance her teaching of nature writing. The author outlines thirteen specific...
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Pedagogy (2015) 15 (3): 527–534.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Ann M. Fox; David R. Wessner This article discusses a collaborative course at Davidson College titled Representations of HIV/AIDS. With students, the authors look at the over thirty-year-old history of HIV/AIDS and the interwoven scientific and artistic responses to it. Not simply analyzing...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (1): 233–240.
Published: 01 January 2011
... about Science . New York: Cambridge University Press. Fahnestock, Jeanne. 1986 . “Accommodating Science: The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts.” Written Communication 3 : 275 – 96. Gregory, Jane, and Steve Miller. 1998 . Science in Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibility . New...
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Pedagogy (2014) 14 (1): 107–135.
Published: 01 January 2014
... while improving students’ use of rhetorical inquiry to both analyze and compose texts. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Bauer Henry H. 1992 . Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method . Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press . Berthoff...
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Pedagogy (2023) 23 (2): 349–361.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... No longer did Beasts neatly contain the literature in one half of the semester and the science in the other. Not to say that Aristotle's observations and Albertus's experiments weren't scientific, or to forget that we had read Ruth Padel's poetry about Darwin's experiments alongside his own report of those...
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Pedagogy (2004) 4 (1): 27–42.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in Nineteenth-Century England . Athens: University of Georgia Press. Moulton, Richard G. 1893 [1885]. Shakespeare As a Dramatic Artist: A Popular Illustration of the Principles of Scientific Criticism. 3d ed. Oxford:Clarendon. ———. 1915 . The Modern Study of Literature: An Introduction to Literary...
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Pedagogy (2023) 23 (2): 289–295.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Press 2023 Daniel Defoe plague pandemic The pandemic has demonstrated why the emphasis on STEM education has been so important. In addition to the scientists, we need to have a scientifically literate population. An educated citizenry, able to think and read critically, is necessary...
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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (3): 537–544.
Published: 01 October 2013
... something in the process. What is an English professor doing in an upper-­level biology class titled Scientific Imaging? I am designing a creative nonfiction course titled Writing about Nature, so I am viewing nature through a scientific lens in order to improve my teaching and practice...
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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (3): 544–548.
Published: 01 October 2013
... class titled Scientific Imaging? I am designing a creative nonfiction course titled Writing about Nature, so I am viewing nature through a scientific lens in order to improve my teaching and practice of creativity. How and why should I adapt the principles of Scientific Imaging to a nature...
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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (3): 554–561.
Published: 01 October 2013
... class titled Scientific Imaging? I am designing a creative nonfiction course titled Writing about Nature, so I am viewing nature through a scientific lens in order to improve my teaching and practice of creativity. How and why should I adapt the principles of Scientific Imaging to a nature...
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Pedagogy (2022) 22 (1): 43–60.
Published: 01 January 2022
... Scientific Research More Inclusive .” CBE Life Sciences Education 13 : 602 – 6 . Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University . 1996 . Reinventing Undergraduate Educations: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities . Stony Brook, NY : Commission on Educating...
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Pedagogy (2010) 10 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 January 2010
... and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Kuhn, Thomas. 1996 . The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lacaria, Christopher. 2008. “Recent English Department Innovations Further Eviscerate Liberal Education...
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Pedagogy (2015) 15 (2): 391–395.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., examining the role of identity for students in biology, finds that students view scientific writing as knowledge transfer more than as rhetor- ical acts and that students’ uncertainty with discursive identities affects their performance in scientific communication. Chapter 2 describes more advanced...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (1): 211–218.
Published: 01 January 2011
... form of scientific writing Hjortshoj discusses at any length, this approach may only reinforce the belief that scientific writing is inherently a simple and make-­work exercise. As it turns out, this is just the beginning of the inadequate treatment the sciences receive throughout much...
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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (1): 179–187.
Published: 01 January 2013
... in which I work, and the problems beset- ting the academy are hardly limited to the humanities. A recent New York Times article (Zimmer 2012) reported on the increase in the number of schol- arly retractions for research misconduct that have been forced on authors of scientific papers over the last...
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Pedagogy (2014) 14 (3): 569–575.
Published: 01 October 2014
... the style of scientific communication. Second, science pre­ sents rhetorical situations that are stylistically complex. And third, scientific discourse is “difficult and ‘strange’ for many students — even students in sci- entific fields,” but this strangeness is “manageable and advantageous” (281...
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Pedagogy (2009) 9 (1): 3–12.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Tegmark, Max. 2003 . “Parallel Universes: A Scientific American Special Report.” Scientific American , May, 40 - 51. Weinstock, Jeffrey, ed. 2004 . Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Ziolkowski, Theodore. 1992 . German...
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Pedagogy (2009) 9 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 October 2009
...- firms the scientific validity of the major claims of his book and speculates as to why it inspired such antipathy, noting the absence of any scientifi- cally grounded debunking of his major premises. Adam Ellwanger’s essay approaches the question of the ethical viability of polemics in academic...
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Pedagogy (2009) 9 (3): 475–486.
Published: 01 October 2009
... the problems facing contemporary education through a consideration of Hirsch’s hermeneutical theory, showing the central importance of content in communication and learning. In his contribution, E. D. Hirsch  Jr. reaf- firms the scientific validity of the major claims of his book and speculates...
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Pedagogy (2009) 9 (3): 501–508.
Published: 01 October 2009
... the problems facing contemporary education through a consideration of Hirsch’s hermeneutical theory, showing the central importance of content in communication and learning. In his contribution, E. D. Hirsch  Jr. reaf- firms the scientific validity of the major claims of his book and speculates...