Creative Report Writing in Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Inspires Nonmajors

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• 作者：Maged Henary ; Eric A. Owens ; Joseph G. Tawney
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：January 13, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：92
• 期：1
• 页码：90-95
• 全文大小：311K
• ISSN：1938-1328

文摘

Laboratory-based courses require students to compose reports based on the performed experiments to assess their overall understanding of the presented material; unfortunately, the sterile and formulated nature of the laboratory report disinterests most students. As a result, the outcome is a lower-quality product that does not reveal full understanding of the material. We have found that by allowing students to be more creative while preparing the introduction of their research reports, a greater enthusiasm for the organic chemistry course is stimulated because students are able to relate to the seemingly irrelevant reactants and mechanisms; this is often reflected in their laboratory reports, which are highly creative while maintaining crucial scientific integrity in the remainder of the report discussing experimental protocol, mechanisms, and all corresponding data.