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Precise Writing for a Precise Science.

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Bunting, Roger K. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1999

Presents a collection of examples of familiar erroneous grammatical constructions in a scientific context, and provides suggestions for improved sentence structure. (WRM)

Descriptors: Communication Skills, Error Patterns, Grammar, Higher Education

Information Processing Interpretation of Errors in College Science Learning.

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Fisher, K. M.; Lipson, Joseph I. – Instructional Science, 1985

Summarizes information processing models of the mind based on a literature review; describes a prototypical model of college learning; examines links between mental models and cognitive errors; reviews cognitive science students; and identifies six factors contributing to cognitive error production. (104 references) (Author/MBR)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Error Patterns, Higher Education

Processing Errors in Conditional and Biconditional Problem Solving Behavior.

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Wildman, Terry M.; Fletcher, Harold J. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979

Students were administered either conditional syllogism, biconditional syllogism, or conditional and biconditional syllogism tests. Analyses confirmed a tendency towards biconditionality. With conditional syllogisms, results indicated variations across forms of both major and second premises and a reversed developmental trend on problems which…

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Deduction, Error Patterns, Higher Education

Common Methodology Mistakes in Dissertations, Revisited.

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Thompson, Bruce – 1994

Dissertations are an important component of the effort to generate knowledge. Thus, dissertation quality may be seen by accreditation and coordinating-board reviewers as a noteworthy reflection on the quality of doctoral programs themselves. The present study reviews methodological errors within Ph.D. dissertations. The illustrative errors are…

Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Error Patterns