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Subject: Responding to reviewer's comments

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Charlotte Taylor
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30/05/2007 10:46  
Thanks for the review Colin, very interesting questions. Just to clarify:
The 'Writing in Biology' program is not a course in which students
enrol. Rather it's a program, with resources, activities etc, which is
integrated into a 'normal' first year biology course. Each week students attend the usual lectures and labs on biology (ie the discipline content) and our writing activities, discussions etc are strategically positioned within the lab classes (with a lecture on writing slotted into a pretty full biology program). The writing tasks are all real lab reports on the experiments and research projects students are carrying out in each week's lab class. The main report is on a novel piece of research the whole cohort carries out during semester and which feeds into a major project at the university hospital.
Colin Milligan
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31/05/2007 11:26  
Hello Charlotte,
Thanks for the clarification, the level of embedding here is great - you must have had to drag some of the other faculty kicking and screaming to get the curriculum redesigned in this way - as I said in the chat, science labs are fundamental to science education (though as a technologist I'm not necessarily wedded to a wholly lab bench approach) and it is great to see someone focusing their teaching effort on such an important part of the student experience.
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