Writing-intensive learning

The Use of Writing-Intensive Learning as a Communication and Learning Tool in an Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Course... 

At Simon Fraser University (SFU) recent university-wide curriculum revisions require all undergraduate students to take two courses designated as writing-intensive. The goals of this initiative were twofold. Firstly, students would write to learn in the forms typical of the discipline, that is these courses should use examples, styles, and technical language that are representative of the specific subject. Secondly, feedback and response to students written work would be provided, aimed at improving the overall quality of writing [1,2]. 

Write a brief radio advertisement for the five-day intensives. What appeals might persuade people to pay 500 each to attend a seminar to learn to eat air ... 

On the subject of the perfection of metallic bodies, as in his reference to the Spagyric Art, the Grand Magistrum, the Universal Medicine, the Tinctures to transmute metals and other mysteries of the alchemist s art, he has completely mystified not only the lay reader, but the learned chemists of his own and later times. In all his works the important key to a laboratory process is apparently omitted. Actually, however, such a key is invariably to be found in some other part of the writings, probably in the midst of one of the mysterious theological discourses which he was wont to insert among his practical instructions, so that it is only by intensive study that the mystery can be unravelled. 

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