GC Insights: Geoscience students' experience of writing academic poetry as an aid to their science education

Wardle, Alice; Illingworth, Sam

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-221-2022

Articles | Volume 5, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-221-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-221-2022

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19 Jul 2022

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| 19 Jul 2022

GC Insights: Geoscience students' experience of writing academic poetry as an aid to their science education

Alice Wardle and Sam Illingworth

Data sets

Geoscience students' experience of writing academic poetry as an aid to their science education A. Wardle and S. Illingworth http://osf.io/a24sz

Short summary

Participants answered four questions concerning their experience writing a haiku based on a geoscience extract. Data were categorised as being part of the Task Process or Task Meaning. The themes involved in the Task Process were Identification of significant information, Distillation of information and Metamorphosis of text, while the themes related to Task Meaning were made up of Enjoyable, Challenging (which has sub-themes Frustrating and Restricted) and Valuable.