For a Better Grade in Astronomy, Write About It

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #170.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The goal of the interdisciplinary writing program (IWP) at the Univerity of Washington is to help students learn about writing in a particular discipline. A writing link with Astronomy 101 was begun Spring Quarter, 2002. Almost immediately the instructors involved noticed a secondary effect: as a group, those students enrolled in the IWP link did better overall in the Astronomy 101 course. We investigate this trend for almost all quarters since then. We also address the statistics that show the backgrounds of the students in the IWP link do not differ significantly from the general astronomy population, leaving other possibilities for their doing better in all aspects of the introductory course.

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