More than a picture: Helping undergraduates learn to communicate through scientific images

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-35

  Watson, Fiona L ^a   Lom, Barbara ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 41949113590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.07-07-0045     Document Type: Review

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