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PubMed, The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune as Tools for Teaching Genetics

Author(s) -

Bernard S. Strauss

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

genetics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792

H-Index - 246

eISSN - 1943-2631

pISSN - 0016-6731

DOI - 10.1534/genetics.105.046326

Subject(s) - heredity , trace (psycholinguistics) , mathematics education , genetics , biology , psychology , linguistics , philosophy

An elementary course in human heredity for students not planning to major in the sciences can be based on current scientific literature and on the popular media. Examinations are constructed from questions on recent abstracts obtained from PubMed. The course is designed to promote writing skills in the sciences, and students write two papers in the course of a quarter. In the first paper, students trace the primary source of media reports on genetics and attempt to evaluate the reporter's translation. In a second paper, students write popular articles on the basis of current primary sources.

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