Class journals, grading writing, and teaching writing style

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 314-316

  Wells, Neil Andrew ^a,b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education (by) writing and speaking; Education geoscience; Education undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005332395     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-45.4.314     Document Type: Article

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