Students' Written Arguments in General Chemistry Laboratory Investigations

Research in Science Education

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1763-1783

  Choi, Aeran ^a   Hand, Brian ^b   Greenbowe, Thomas ^c  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument; Writing to learn science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884532416     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-012-9330-1     Document Type: Article

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