Re: [Phys-l] Writing a review or lab report

[William Robertson <wrobert9@ix.netcom.com>]

Purely anecdotal: My English teacher in 7th and 8th grade had us  
diagramming sentences 'till the cows came home. I can still trace my  
ability to recognize bad grammar from good back to those two years.  
Not a lot of sentence diagramming going on in schools these days.

Bill


On May 2, 2011, at 8:19 PM, John Clement wrote:

> The act of writing may not be the important factor.  Learning to  
> communicate
> using correct words and being logical may be the domininant factor.   
> Shayer
> & Adey showed a 15% increase on the English national exam in English  
> when
> the students were exposed to Thinking Science.  But TS does not have  
> any
> report writing, and indeed most of the communicating is verbal.   
> There is
> some writing, but it would be short explanations and not even  
> approaching a
> lab report.
>
> Certainly there is the factor that someone who reads a lot acquires  
> a better
> feel for the language and a wider vocabulary, but that is not  
> something
> acquired by writing lab reports.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX