Online approach to teaching report writing in chemical engineering: Implementation and evaluation

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 858-867

  Drury, Helen ^a   O'Carroll, Peter ^a   Langrish, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemical engineering; Communication studies; Computer based learning; Laboratory feedback; Report writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748042657     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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