Write Like a Chemist: A Guide and Resource

摘要

Because writing is an essential professional skill, there is increasing awareness that it is important to provide chemistry students, both undergraduate and graduate, with formal instruction in the kinds of writing that they will engage in during their careers. Since most chemists have little experience and training in the teaching of writing, it is important to have high-quality materials readily available; therefore I was delighted to receive a copy of this new book, Write Like a Chemist. It is the result of a unique collaboration between a chemist (Marin S, Robinson) and an applied linguist (Fredricka L. Stoller) that was supported by two NSF grants. The resulting book and supplementary Web site (1), which were written with the collaboration of two coauthors (Costanza-Robinson and Jones) and have undergone extensive pilot testing, are an outstanding addition to the literature on teaching writing in science.