Sex, camouflage, marvelous adaptations: A writing assignment that inspires
Sex, camouflage, marvelous adaptations: A writing assignment that inspires
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性、伪装、奇妙的改编：激发灵感的写作作业
作者：
A. Palmer
写作作业在现场和在线课程中为学生提供了宝贵的学习经验。但是，对阅卷的挑战和额外工作以及剽窃的担忧，往往阻止教师使用它们。我在一个学期的无脊椎动物生物学课程中成功地使用了20多年的写作作业，尽管注册人数超过100人。为了最大限度地吸引学生，同时最大限度地减少标记负荷，作业通常会产生故事的宝石，用于随后的讲座。参考文献注释作业要求学生：（a）用250字以下的篇幅简要说明三篇主要科学文献中的论文的合理性、主要结果和重要性;（B）对三篇论文的总体内容做一个简短（150字）的总结。学生们喜欢这个作业，因为他们可以选择任何无脊椎动物属的生物学的任何方面。这激发了他们出于个人兴趣探索文学。这对教师来说很有吸引力，因为注释很紧凑，因此很容易阅读，标记和检查剽窃。它对主办大学很有吸引力，因为它可以广泛使用图书馆资源，并激励学生学习如何有效地使用它们和在线分类数据库。在这里我提供：（a）这项作业的说明，（B）一个简单的评分规则，（c）两个优秀的提交的例子，和（d）
Writing assignments offer valuable student learning experiences in both live and online courses. But concerns about the challenges and extra work of marking, and about plagiarism, often deter instructors from using them. I used a writing assignment successfully over 20 years in a one- term invertebrate biology course, despite enrolments exceeding 100. Structured to maximally engage students yet minimize marking load, the assignment often yielded gems of stories for use in subsequent lectures. The Annotated Bibliography assignment asks students: (a) to précis the justi -fication, main results, and significance of three papers from the primary scientific literature in under 250 words each, and (b) to provide a short (150 word) summary of the broader story connecting the three papers. Students liked this assignment because they could choose any aspect of the biology of any invertebrate genus. This inspired them to explore the literature out of personal interest. It's appealing for instructors, because annotations are compact and therefore easy to read, mark, and inspect for plagiarism. It is appealing to host universities, because it generates extensive use of library resources and motivates students to learn how to use them, and online taxonomic databases, effectively. Here I provide: (a) instructions for this assignment, (b) a straightforward marking rubric, (c) two examples of excellent submissions, and (d)