Science Writing and Revision Interactive Technology Environment (Science WRITE)

Science WRITE是一个计算机支持的学习环境，它将通过直接促进对成功至关重要的复杂认知过程，为帮助理科生学好写作这一具有挑战性的问题提供创新的解决方案。该系统的教育基础是一种被称为程序促进的技术，在学生从新手成长为专家的过程中，培养他们在高层次思考上的独立性。我们将通过万维网技术提供科学写作，因为它非常适合完成这些学习目标。我们将设计、编写、编程、测试、完善和传播10个互动模块，其中包含一系列学习活动，这些活动将帮助学生开发自己独立的过程来规划和修改科学文件。我们将把这些模块与我们最近开发的文档注释系统、协作和知识构建工具以及与其他学科和论述知识的网络资源的链接整合在一起。该系统将被设计用于有运动机能学科学写作项目的全国本科生。Science WRITE将是第一个以认知研究为基础的综合资源（印刷或在线），并支持本科理科学生参与计划和修改论文的所有过程。此外，该系统将被设计成一个研究实验室，在那里我们可以继续调查和完善帮助学生学习科学学科写作的策略。科学写作将展示这种教育方法在提高大学生写作和思维质量方面的强大潜力。

Science WRITE, a computer-supported learning environment, will offer an innovative solution to the challenging problem of helping undergraduate science students to write well, by directly facilitating the complex cognitive processes that are critical for success. The system's educational foundation is a technique called procedural facilitation, which fosters independence in high-level thinking as students develop from novice to expert writers. We will deliver Science WRITE through World Wide Web technology because it is uniquely suited for accomplishing these learning goals. We will design, write, program, test, refine, and disseminate 10 interactive modules containing an array of learning activities that will help students develop their own independent processes for planning and revising scientific documents. We will integrate these modules with each other, with a document annotation system that we recently developed, with collaborative and knowledge-construction tools, and with links to other Web resources for disciplinary and discourse knowledge. The system will be designed for use by the nation's undergraduate students who have scientific writing projects in kinesiology. Science WRITE will be the first comprehensive resource (in print or on line) that is grounded in cognitive research and that supports undergraduate science students through all the processes involved in planning and revising papers. In addition, the system will be designed as a research laboratory in which we can continue to investigate and refine strategies for helping students learn to write in scientific disciplines. Science WRITE will demonstrate the powerful potential of this educational approach to improve the quality of undergraduate writing and thinking.