THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM | Words Are Important

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Tom Garrison | Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, USA

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College profs spend a great amount of time reading and commenting on students' written work. This can be a real struggle! The precision and clarity required in science writing are often alien to first-time lab students who have been tutored by high school English teachers to include elaborate metaphors and colorful vocabulary.

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Garrison, T. 2013. The oceanography classroom: Words are important. Oceanography 26(1):106–107, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.14.

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